Preaching: The Art and the Craft

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Paulist Press, 1987 - 250 pagini
Practical advice for preachers everywhere, written out of long experience and deep learning. Homilists will welcome its advice about language, the role of the imagination, preaching and prophecy, the liturgical setting of the preached word, and social justice. +

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Cuprins

THE WORD MADE FLESH TODAY Does Language Make a Difference?
3
SIR WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE JESUS Preaching As Imagining
17
SHUDDER YOU COMPLACENT ONES Ancient Prophet and Modern Preacher
29
THE LORD OPENED THE MOUTH OF THE ASS The View from the Pew
42
LORD TEACH US HOW TO PREACH From Study to Proclamation
54
THUS SAYS THE LORD The Word Forms the Preacher
78
IN SEASON AND OUT OF SEASON What Shall I Preach About?
90
DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME The Homily As Liturgy
108
OF THEIR RACE IS THE CHRIST How To Preach about the Jews
139
SO SARAH LAUGHED Humor in the Holy of Holies?
159
WHAT SHALL A MAN GIVE IN EXCHANGE? The Cost of Preaching
173
LORD TO WHOM SHALL WE GO? Masters Who Just Might Help
192
POSTLUDE
217
NOTES
220
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
243
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LET JUSTICE ROLL DOWN LIKE WATERS Preaching the Just Word
119

Termeni și expresii frecvente

Pasaje populare

Pagina 204 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you for perpetual generations : I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Pagina 43 - And the eye cannot say to the hand, ' I have no need of thee ' ; nor again the head to the feet,
Pagina 87 - All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Pagina 30 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Neither let the mighty man glory in his might, Let not the rich man glory in his riches : But let him that glorieth glory in this, That he understandeth and knoweth me, That I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : For in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Pagina 143 - The LORD has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me." "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
Pagina 6 - But how are men to call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher? '^And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!
Pagina 57 - I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, "Know the Lord...
Pagina 39 - If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Pagina 137 - He had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined. If he had ever lived and acted, we were none the wiser for it. The capital secret of his profession, namely, to convert life into truth, he had not learned.
Pagina 40 - And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do.

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