[PDF] A Homiletics Of Communal Participation In The Spirit For The Contemporary Church eBook

Author : Jae Yang Lordwin Lim
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Preaching
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The "New Homiletic" movement initially focused on individual listeners. Then, homiletic scholars began to emphasize the importance of the faith community as a whole in the preaching event. The preaching method was changed from a rhetorical style to a more conversational and participatory one. In keeping with a postmodern context, Christian proclamation was also extended to marginalized, silenced, and oppressed others. Yet what is lacking in all this development is a balanced account of the role of the divine agency in the preaching event. The Pauline vision of the body of Christ in the Spirit, together with Michael Welker's doctrine of the Spirit as God's force field and the public person of Christ, provide the grounding for claiming Christian preaching as communal participation in the Spirit's working force for proclamation. Proclamation as a divine-human activity is not the preaching act of individual preachers, but a mutual giving and receiving of the manifestations of preaching by the whole church in the Spirit. A homiletics of communal participation in the Spirit focusing on the initiating agency of the Spirit and the mediating agency of the church can provide practical styles of preaching that extend to the whole of God's creation. To this end, I draw on practices of the Korean Church that embody the communal participatory spirit of the Korean people, specifically Korean "madangguk," which is the contemporary heir to traditional Korean theater arts.

Author : Jae Yang Lim
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File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 2016
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The "New Homiletic" movement initially focused on individual listeners. Then, homiletic scholars began to emphasize the importance of the faith community as a whole in the preaching event. The preaching method was changed from a rhetorical style to a more conversational and participatory one. In keeping with a postmodern context, Christian proclamation was also extended to marginalized, silenced, and oppressed others. Yet what is lacking in all this development is a balanced account of the role of the divine agency in the preaching event. The Pauline vision of the body of Christ in the Spirit, together with Michael Welker's doctrine of the Spirit as God's force field and the public person of Christ, provide the grounding for claiming Christian preaching as communal participation in the Spirit's working force for proclamation. Proclamation as a divine-human activity is not the preaching act of individual preachers, but a mutual giving and receiving of the manifestations of preaching by the whole church in the Spirit. A homiletics of communal participation in the Spirit focusing on the initiating agency of the Spirit and the mediating agency of the church can provide practical styles of preaching that extend to the whole of God's creation. To this end, I draw on practices of the Korean Church that embody the communal participatory spirit of the Korean people, specifically Korean "madangguk," which is the contemporary heir to traditional Korean theater arts.

Author : Greg Heisler
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805443882

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A closer look at the Holy Spirit's role in sermon preparation and delivery, Spirit-Led Preaching helps pastors and professors better emphasize the important combination of Word and Spirit when sharing the gospel.

Author : Pope Francis
Publisher : Image
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0553419544

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The perfect gift! A specially priced, beautifully designed hardcover edition of The Joy of the Gospel with a foreword by Robert Barron and an afterword by James Martin, SJ. “The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus… In this Exhortation I wish to encourage the Christian faithful to embark upon a new chapter of evangelization marked by this joy, while pointing out new paths for the Church’s journey in years to come.” – Pope Francis This special edition of Pope Francis's popular message of hope explores themes that are important for believers in the 21st century. Examining the many obstacles to faith and what can be done to overcome those hurdles, he emphasizes the importance of service to God and all his creation. Advocating for “the homeless, the addicted, refugees, indigenous peoples, the elderly who are increasingly isolated and abandoned,” the Holy Father shows us how to respond to poverty and current economic challenges that affect us locally and globally. Ultimately, Pope Francis demonstrates how to develop a more personal relationship with Jesus Christ, “to recognize the traces of God’s Spirit in events great and small.” Profound in its insight, yet warm and accessible in its tone, The Joy of the Gospel is a call to action to live a life motivated by divine love and, in turn, to experience heaven on earth. Includes a foreword by Robert Barron, author of Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith and James Martin, SJ, author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage

Author : L. Roger Owens
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1606085190

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The Shape of Participation is a work of constructive theology addressed to theologians, seminarians, and thoughtful pastors. Owens engages and deepens recent popular discussions of church practices by approaching practices from the church Fathers' understanding of the church's participation in God. Through a wide-ranging engagement with theologians, both ancient and contemporary---including Cyril of Alexandria. Maximus the Confessor, Dietrich Bonhocffer, and Herbert McCabe---Owens argues that the embodied practices of the church are the church's participation in the life of God. making the church Jesus's own continued, peaceable embodiment in and for the world. This book is for theologians, pastors, and anyone who wants a deeper understanding of how the visible presence of God's church is extraordinarily good news in a violent world. "I'm grateful for this account of the church's relationship to the life of God for refusing the hopelessness of so much contemporary ecclesiology. All of us who persist in preaching or hearing the Word and receiving God's good gifts at the table will be strengthened and encouraged by Owens's theocentric understanding of what the church is up to in the world."---Beth Felker Jones wheaton College "A wonderful book---Owens takes the significant interest in `practices' that has emerged over the last decade, engages it theologically in rich ways with attention to specific eeclesial examples, and deepens it through insightful analyses of Dietrich Bonhocffer. Herbert McCabe, and Maximus the Confessor. Pastors and scholars alike will benefit from careful study of Owens's significant argument."---L. Gregory Jones Duke University "By refraining the church's practices as a participation in Christ and, indeed, as Christ's own practicing in and for the world. Owens has brought to the study of Christian practice new theological depth, shape, and creativity. Moreover, by doing this in dialogue with ancient as well as contemporary theological and philosophical sources and in a way that takes seriously the concrete, embodied church rather than remaining on the level of idealized and abstract ecclesiology, he has provided us a helpful new model for thinking about what it means to be the church."-Bryan Stone Boston University School of Theology

Author : Scott M. Gibson
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493415603

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Scott Gibson and Matthew Kim, both experienced preachers and teachers, have brought together four preaching experts--Bryan Chapell, Kenneth Langley, Abraham Kuruvilla, and Paul Scott Wilson--to present and defend their approaches to homiletics. Reflecting current streams of thought in homiletics, the book offers a robust discussion of theological and hermeneutical approaches to preaching and encourages pastors and ministry students to learn about preaching from other theological traditions. It also includes discussion questions for direct application to one's preaching.

Author : Dave Barnhart
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1791007341

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People have lost faith in all collective institutions: government, corporations, the media, and the church. We are in the midst of a spiritual disaster, a flood of biblical proportions, and house churches provide lifeboats for people who are seeking a more authentic, life-giving form of Christian community. Many people remember that the early church started in homes, but they don’t understand that house churches are still a legitimate and viable model today. House churches can create the intimacy so many people are hungry for. They can nurture life-changing discipleship for individuals and create justice-centered communities. Networked house churches can become truly diverse, multi-ethnic communities that spread the Gospel by emphasizing practices over programs. These communities de-center the preacher, opting instead for grassroots organizing, but they are not leaderless — they are leader-full. This book provides an alternative model for denominations and established churches to consider. It will help pastors reconnect with the traditions of community organizing, itinerant preaching, and discipleship training that sparked Methodism and other church movements in the United States. Church Comes Home offers alternative ways to look at some of the problems facing our church and our culture.

Author : Avery Dulles
Publisher : Image
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 2002-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0385505450

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There is today a dramatic reexamination of structure, authority, dogma -- indeed, every aspect of the life of the Church is held up to scrutiny. Welcoming this as a sign of vitality, Avery Dulles has carefully studied the writings of contemporary Protestant and Catholic ecclesiologists and sifted out six major approaches, or "models," through which the Church's character can be understood: as Institution, Mystical Communion, Sacrament, Herald, Servant, and, in a recent addition to the book, as Community of Disciples. A balanced theology, he concludes, must incorporate the major affirmations of each. "The method of models or types," observes Cardinal Dulles, "can have great value in helping people to get beyond the limitations of their own particular outlook and to enter into fruitful conversation with others... Such conversation is obviously essential if ecumenism is to get beyond its present impasses." This new edition includes a new Appendix and Preface by the author.

Author : B. Ward Powers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1556359330

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In most areas of this Epistle, B. Ward Powers has come to share the interpretation of Paul's meaning held by the Early Church Fathers; although he explains and expounds those views. This is particularly the case in relation to chapters 12 through 14 where, in keeping with the Early Church Fathers, the Reformers, most Scripture expositors until recent times, and many present-day exegetes, Powers expounds the interpretation that tongues refers to human languages spoken on earth. The one major area where Powers parts company with the Fathers of the first Christian centuries is in relation to matters of sex and marriage, divorce and remarriage, and attitudes to women generally. Here Powers explains that Paul is more affirming of sex, marriage and remarriage, and women than many early writers (and some modern writers) have understood him to be. We need at times to take considerable care, he writes, to understand the meaning of what Paul says to the Corinthians, and in coming to terms with how this teaching is to apply to us in today's world. But when we have arrived at our understanding of these things, then there is no question: this is the Word of God to us, and we must take it very seriously indeed. We cannot just dismiss it offhandedly and simply say, 'Well, that is just Paul's opinion, and we can take it or leave it.' Not at all: Paul has explained clearly that what he writes comes with the inspiration and authority of the Holy Spirit of God.

Author : Henry T. Blackaby
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0805447539

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A modern classic--revised with more than 70 percent new material--is based on seven Scriptural realities that teach Christians how to develop a true relationship with the Creator.