Preach It!
Understanding African-Caribbean Preaching
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2018
201 pages
978-0-334-05739-0 (ISBN)
Description
Studies of preaching and preaching style have up to this point focused almost exclusively on a western eurocentric understanding of good preaching. Preach It encourages students, both vocational and scholarly, to look beyond these approaches and to learn from traditions with which they are less familiar. The distinctive style and techniques that African Caribbean Pentecostal preachers have inherited has been shaped by historical, political and socio-economic factors impacting on black Caribbean people (including clergy). Using a variety of socio-linguistic and theological approaches, Preach It reflects on these techniques, and outlines how preachers across church traditions might learn from them and use them in their own contexts.
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Content
- Intro
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part one: Backgrounds
- 1. Development of Modern Pentecostalism: Its Origins, African Roots and the role of William Joseph Seymour
- 2. African Caribbean Pentecostalism in Britain: Theologies, Liturgy and the Preaching Event
- 3. The Genesis and Development of Jamaican Creole: Speaking Jamaican, British Black Talk and Code-switching in Preaching
- 4. The Hermeneutics of African Caribbean Homiletics
- Part two: Tools
- 5. Artistic Oratory in African Caribbean Pentecostal Preaching
- 6. Intertwining the Preaching Act: Call and Response
- 7. Restating the Claim: Repetition in Preaching
- 8. Conclusion
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Bibliography
