RT Article
T1 Preaching in the time of COVID: finding the words to speak of God
JF Practical theology
VO 14
IS 1/2
SP 47
OP 57
A1 Beamish, Robert
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1756546509
AB This study contends that preaching in a time of crisis, such as the global pandemic, demands homiletical models that enable speech about God which can address the questions of God’s character and activity that are raised by great tragedy and disruption. A sample set of sermons, from churches of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, preached during the first United Kingdom wide national lockdown are reviewed as to what they say about God in relation to the pandemic. A model for crisis preaching as apophatic discourse is presented and then the central process of ‘saying and unsaying’ is applied to one of the more theocentric sample sermons in order to evaluate the potential effectiveness of the proposal.
K1 Discourse
K1 Apophatic
K1 Trauma
K1 Crisis
K1 Preaching
DO 10.1080/1756073X.2020.1869371