Finally Comes the Poet: Daring Speech for ProclamationFortress Press, 1989 M01 1 - 165 pages The Christian gospel, says Brueggemann, is too easily preached and heard. Too often technical reason and excessive religious certitude reduce the gospel to coercive, debilitating pietisms that mask the text's meaning and freeze the hearers heart. With skill and imagination, Brueggemann demonstrates how the preacher can engage in daring speech?differently voiced and therefore differently heard. This speech, as suggested by the Bible itself, is "poetic" speech, enabling the preacher to forge communion in the midst of alienation, bring healing out of guilt, and empower the hearer for "missional imagination." As an alternative to theological/homiletical discourse that is moralistic, pietistic or scholastic, Brueggemann proposes preaching that is artistic, poetic, and dramatic. The basis for the 1989 Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale Divinity School, Finally Comes the Poet is a unique and transforming guide for powerful preaching. |
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... situations . It is the task of preaching to provide a ground and energy for speech , care , and notice . As we seek new modes of speech appro- priate to our situation of interpretation , we shall find them , I suggest , exactly in the ...
... situations . It is the task of preaching to provide a ground and energy for speech , care , and notice . As we seek new modes of speech appro- priate to our situation of interpretation , we shall find them , I suggest , exactly in the ...
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... situation of reductionism , the only proclamation , I submit , that is worthy of the name preach- ing . Such preaching is not moral instruction or problem solving or doctrinal clarification . It is not good advice , nor is it romantic ...
... situation of reductionism , the only proclamation , I submit , that is worthy of the name preach- ing . Such preaching is not moral instruction or problem solving or doctrinal clarification . It is not good advice , nor is it romantic ...
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... situation , in this moment , the preacher must speak . She does not get to speak a new text . She must speak an old text -- the one everybody knows . From the very first syllable , the ending is already known . But it is a script to be ...
... situation , in this moment , the preacher must speak . She does not get to speak a new text . She must speak an old text -- the one everybody knows . From the very first syllable , the ending is already known . But it is a script to be ...
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... situation causes him to pene- trate the mystery of self - giving of which he can barely conceive : How can guilt be taken away , how can it not drag the guilty one down and down ? Did redemption exist , could it exist , was it not a ...
... situation causes him to pene- trate the mystery of self - giving of which he can barely conceive : How can guilt be taken away , how can it not drag the guilty one down and down ? Did redemption exist , could it exist , was it not a ...
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Contents
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Alienation and Rage The Odd Invitation to Doxological Communion | 43 |
Restlessness and Greed Obedience for Missional Imagination | 79 |
Resistance and Relinquishment A Permit for Freedom | 111 |
Notes | 143 |
Scripture Index | 163 |
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