Renaissance Rhetoric and Born-Again Preaching
“During the past generation, heirs of the Reformation have paid their respects to textual preaching and its power to change human lives; but we have also seen how familiar texts can serve to confirm people in their prejudices and previous behavior … The ‘literal sense’ becomes a literalist dogma abo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1978
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Theology today
Year: 1978, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 168-177 |
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| Summary: | “During the past generation, heirs of the Reformation have paid their respects to textual preaching and its power to change human lives; but we have also seen how familiar texts can serve to confirm people in their prejudices and previous behavior … The ‘literal sense’ becomes a literalist dogma about the text … Preaching becomes over-serious or over-cute … Preaching might become once again an occasion of discovery and transformation if it were conceived as part of a broader art of homiletics (‘homologein’), of ‘coming to say the same thing’ both with the biblical authors and with one another.” |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057367803500205 |