Homiletical theology
Subtitle: preaching as doing theology
By: edited by David Schnasa Jacobsen ; foreword by David Buttrick
Series: The promise of homiletical theology -- v. 1; Promise of homiletical theology -- v. 1.
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781625645654
Subjects: Doctrinal preaching; Predigt; Preaching; Christentum
Description: "Karl Barth famously argued that all theology is sermon preparation. But what if all sermon preparation is actually theology? This book pursues a thoroughgoing theological vision for the practice of preaching as a way of doing theology. The idea is not just that homiletics is the realm of theological application. That would leave preaching in the position of simply implementing a theology already arrived at. Instead, the vision in these pages is of a form of theology that begins with preaching itself: its practice, its theories, and its contexts. Homiletical theology is thus a unique way of doing theology - even a constructive theological task in its own right. Homiletician David Schnasa Jacobsen has assembled several of the leading lights of contemporary homiletics to help to see its task ever more deeply as theological, yet in profoundly diverse ways. Along the way, readers will not only discover how homileticians do theology homiletically, but will deepen the way in which they understand their own preaching as a theological task."--Back jacket cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186).
Table of contents: title: What is homiletical theology? : an invitation to constructive theological dialogue in North American homiletics  -- David Schnase Jacobsen; title: The unfinished task of homiletical theology : a practical-constructive vision  -- David Schnasa Jacobsen; title: Preaching as soft heresy : liturgy and the communicative dimension of homiletical theology  -- John S. McClure; title: In our own native tongue : toward a Pentecostalization of homiletical theology  -- Luke A. Powery; title: The company of sages : homiletical theology as a sapiential hermeneutic  -- Alyce M. McKenzie; title: Dietrich Bonhoeffer : on becoming a homiletic theologian  -- Michael Pasquarello III; title: Preaching as spark for discovery in theology  -- Ronald J. Allen; title: The way and the way of homiletic theology -- Teresa Stricklen Eisenlohr.