The substance of preaching does not address a vacuum, speaking information into an impartial void. The prophetic voice of preaching is a counter-narrative to an entrenched conviction that has embraced a false narrative as true, and any other narratives as threats. The body of the sermon is not simply a point of view. It is …
A sermon conclusion that gives the impression that engagement with the text has been completed and implies that all that remains is a series of steps which the preacher has discerned and provided doesn’t invite ongoing engagement with the text. A conclusion is not the end of the conversation with the text, it is the …
In Preaching Jeremiah Walter Brueggemann seeks to ground preaching in the context of Biblical communication. This is not so much stylistic, but rather a recognition that relying on literary artifice to build a bridge between speaker and hearers softens the reality that the proclamation of God’s kingdom is a “word from beyond”. …sermons do not …
Preaching Jeremiah by Walter Brueggemann is a monograph that is about both sermon construction and the biblical book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah as a canonical book of Scripture is a collation of material that serves as a unified message, a sermon. So the Brueggemann’s book is both about a book, and about the craft of the …
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