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Heart of Black Preaching

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ISBN-10: 0664258476

ISBN-13: 9780664258474

Edition: 2000

Authors: Cleophus J LaRue

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 11/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.27" long x 16.14" tall
Weight: 1.056

Cleophus J. Larue is Francis Landey Patton Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, and the author of The Heart of Black Preaching and the editor of Power in the Pulpit: How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Search for Distinctiveness in Black Preaching
Characteristics of Black Preaching
Scripture and Life Experiences
A Communal Interpretive Strategy
Dynamics of a Black Biblical Hermeneutic
The Power Motif in Nineteenth-Century African American Sermons
A Hermeneutic of Power in Contemporary African American Sermons
The Basic Dynamics of the African American Sermon
Power and the Sovereign God
The Black Sociocultural Context
Varieties of Black Experience
Sermons
The Sun Do Move
The Destined Superiority of the Negro
A Resemblance and a Contrast between the American Negro and the Children of Israel, in Egypt, or the Duty of the Negro to Contend Earnestly for His Rights Guaranteed under the Constitution
The Roosevelt-Washington Episode, or Race Prejudice
Welcome to the Ransomed
The Brotherhood of Man
What Makes You So Strong?
Unexpected Blessings
To Tell the Truth
How to Know You Are in the Kingdom
Pro-vi-dence
Bad Black Dude on the Road
If Thou Be a Great People
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments of Copyrighted Material
Index