What's the Shape of Narrative Preaching?

Name: What's the Shape of Narrative Preaching?
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ISBN: 9780827242555

ISBN-10: 0827242557

ISBN-13: 9780827242555

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael Graves, David Schlafer

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Bringing together some of the finest voices in contemporary homiletics to examine the different forms as well as the status of narrative preaching, What's the Shape of Narrative Preaching? will give readers much to ponder on this impact topic. Teachers of preaching have long recognized that the Bible is told in story form. Yet the responses to the topic of narrative preaching have varied over the years, from singing its praises to outright rejection. The homiletical landscape is always changing, but what many thought might be a fad is still being discussed in the seminaries and practiced in many a pulpit. What's the Shape of Narrative Preaching? asks: What exactly is narrative preaching?…

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List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Chalice Press
Publication date: 1/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Michael Graves is the Armerding Chair of Biblical Studies and associate professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, Illinois. He is also the author ofJerome's Hebrew Philology



Selected Works of Eugene L. Lowry



Wellsprings: What Gives Shape to Narrative Preaching?



A More-or-Less Historical Account of the Fairly Recent History of Narrative Preaching




Theology Undergirding Narrative Preaching




A Match Made in Heaven




African American Contexts of Narrative Preaching




Assessments: What Shape Is Narrative Preaching in Today?



Tracking the Homiletical Plot




Story, Narrative, and Metanarrative




Story and Symbol, the Stuff of Preaching




Out of the Loop




Jazz Me, Gene




Prospects: What Fresh Shapes Might Narrative Preaching Take?



Making Music with What You Have Left




Gasping for Breath




Except in Parables




Convoking Spirit-ed Conversation




Improvisations on the Lowry Loop



Notes


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