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In the second half of the twentieth century, a profound shift took place in how we think about preaching. We moved away from a vertical focus on the preacher who hands down the authoritative teaching, to more relational, narrative, and conversational models. Yet common to both of these understandings, says Paul Scott Wilson, is the idea that preaching is primarily about teaching, that it mainly conveys information about God.Important as this emphasis on €œpreaching as teaching€ has been, Wilson believes that the time for a new approach has arrived. That new approach, which he names €œpreaching as proclamation,€ has begun to arise from a variety of Euro-American and African American sources. Its primary aim is not to convey information, but to engender an encounter with God€™s grace in Christ. More than guiding people to say €œYes, now I understand,€ it hopes to lead them to proclaim €œI am redeemed; we are saved.€ More than telling the gospel sto
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Setting Words on Fire, Paul Scott Wilson
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2008
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- Titel
- Setting Words on Fire
- Untertitel
- Putting God at the Center of the Sermon
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Paul Scott Wilson
- Verlag
- Abingdon Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2008
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 293
- ISBN10
- 0687647185
- ISBN13
- 9780687647187
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Religiöse Themen, Christliche Themen, USA, Predigten
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- In the second half of the twentieth century, a profound shift took place in how we think about preaching. We moved away from a vertical focus on the preacher who hands down the authoritative teaching, to more relational, narrative, and conversational models. Yet common to both of these understandings, says Paul Scott Wilson, is the idea that preaching is primarily about teaching, that it mainly conveys information about God.Important as this emphasis on €œpreaching as teaching€ has been, Wilson believes that the time for a new approach has arrived. That new approach, which he names €œpreaching as proclamation,€ has begun to arise from a variety of Euro-American and African American sources. Its primary aim is not to convey information, but to engender an encounter with God€™s grace in Christ. More than guiding people to say €œYes, now I understand,€ it hopes to lead them to proclaim €œI am redeemed; we are saved.€ More than telling the gospel sto