Celebration and Experience in Preaching

Name: Celebration and Experience in Preaching
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ISBN: 9780687649198

ISBN-10: 0687649196

ISBN-13: 9780687649198

Edition: 2008

Authors: Henry H. Mitchell

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Henry H. Mitchell's great contribution to the study of preaching has been his insistence that the homiletical practices of the Black church are gifts to the whole church. Nowhere has he made this point more forcefully than in Celebration and Experience in Preaching. In this classic text he advocates a way of preaching that genuinely engages all aspects of the congregation's attention, especially the ability to both understand and to feel the sermon's message. In this revised edition Mitchell builds on this groundbreaking work by examining in greater depth the multiple ways in which we experience the preached word, by defining the different kinds of claim on the behavior of the hearer that…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 9/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 151
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgments and Preface to the Revised Edition


Foreword to the First Edition




The Experience of the Word



The Definition and Purpose of Experiences of the Word



The Experience of Seeing, Hearing, and Believing



Emotion, Timing, and Celebration



Genres: The Vehicles of Experience



The Narrative and Related Forms



The Character Sketch and Related Forms



Variations on the Group Study



Parables, Metaphors, and Similes



Expository Preaching and the Combination of Genres



The Stream of Consciousness



Concluding Concerns



The Details of Title and Introduction



The Holy Spirit and Experiential Encounter



A Biblical and Psycho-spiritual Rationale for Preaching as Experiential Encounter with the Word


A Selected Bibliography


Index