The preacher as liturgical artist
Subtitle: metaphor, identity, and the vicarious humanity of Christ
By: Trygve David Johnson ; [foreword by Eugene Peterson]
Contributors: Peterson, Eugene H., 1932- author of introduction, etc
Series: Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute of Preaching series -- 2; Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute of Preaching series -- 2.
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781625640178
Subjects: Preaching; Liturgics
Description: Trygve Johnson invites us to consider a new metaphor of identity of The Preacher as Liturgical Artist. This identity draws on a theology of communion and the doctrine of the vicarious humanity of Christ to relocate the preacher's identity in the creative and ongoing ministry of Jesus Christ. Johnson argues the metaphorical association of the preacher and artist understood within the artistic ministry of Jesus Christ frees the full range of human capacities, including the imagination to bear upon the arts of Christian proclamation. The Preacher as Liturgical Artist connects preachers to the person and work of Jesus Christ, whose own double ministry took the raw materials of the human condition and offered them back to the Father in a redemptive and imaginative fashion through the Holy Spirit. It is in the large creative ministry of Jesus Christ that preachers find their creativity freed to proclaim the gospel bodily within the context of the liturgical work of God's people.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preaching in twilight --; title: Metaphor and identity --; title: The preacher as teacher --; title: The preacher as herald --; title: The preacher as liturgical artist.