
No Longer Bound
A Theology of Reading and Preaching
James Henry Harris(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 14. May 2013
254 pages
978-1-62189-681-4 (ISBN)
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No Longer Bound is about the intersection of reading comprehension and interpretation that leads to the development of a powerful and transformative sermon. Reading facilitates the interpretive process, which is the essence of any sermon. The sermon is an interpretation of an interpretation and as such presents itself as a new gospel message. The ability to write and preach a sermon is an exercise in freedom. The book is grounded in a narrative theological form that begins with the author's experience and filters that experience through the lens of hermeneutic philosophy and theology. Reading and preaching constitute the thread that runs throughout the book. The book suggests that the sermon is the philosophic theology of Black practical religion inasmuch as the Black church is central to religion and culture. This is a fresh and new understanding of homiletics, philosophical theology, and interpretation theory that is intended to produce better preachers and more powerful and life-changing sermons by all who endeavor to preach.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
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978-1-62189-681-4 (9781621896814)
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James Henry Harris is Professor and Chair of Preaching and Pastoral Theology at Virginia Union University and Senior Minister at the Second Baptist Church, both in Richmond, Virginia. He is the author of The Word Made Plain (2004) and Preaching Liberation(1996). He is a recipient of the Henry Luce III Fellowship in Theology and a past president of the Academy of Homiletics.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Practical, Narrative, and Sermonic Theology
- Chapter 1: Teaching Preaching
- Chapter 2: Black Preaching as an Act of Love
- Chapter 3: The Preacher Struggles with Life, Suffering, and Death
- Chapter 4: Sermonic Discourse
- Chapter 5: Sermonic Discourse as Sign and Symbol of Freedom
- Chapter 6: Black Church Preaching, Culture, and Counter-Culture
- Chapter 7: The Place and Problem of Race in Literature, Theology, and Preaching
- Chapter 8: The Disembodiment of Language in Literary Texts and Culture
- Chapter 9: The Preacher as Interpreter
- Bibliography
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