Drama of Preaching

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Drama of Preaching

Participating with God in the History of Redemption

Christianity Religious social and pastoral thought and activity

Author: Eric B. Watkins

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Language: English

Published by: Wipf and Stock

Published on: 16th February 2017

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9781498278607


Preaching as Drama

Preaching is dramatic. Through it, we hear the voice of the living God as he speaks to us both through the reading and the preaching of the word of God. But where do the hearers of sermons fit into the drama?

The Role of the Hearer

This book suggests ways in which the drama metaphor may help to address age old questions about the centrality of the gospel and the place of the hearer in preaching. As God in Christ is the central character in the biblical drama of redemption, he also calls hearers to understand their role in creatively, yet faithfully living according to the biblical script.

The Complete Sermon

Thus, no sermon is complete until God's redemptive work is powerfully proclaimed, and his people are instructed in how they too are participating in the Missio Dei.

Hebrews 11 and Redemptive Work

In this work, Hebrews 11 is employed as a means of showing how God not only reveals his redemptive work to his people, but also through them.

Engaging Postmodern Listeners

As postmodernism sets the stage of contemporary preaching, The Drama of Preaching interacts with some of the particular challenges preachers face in engaging postmodern listeners, that they might not only be hearers, but doers of the preached word.

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