Preaching Liberation
by Harris, James H.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-11-01
Publisher(s): Fortress Pr
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Summary
For all preachers who take seriously the church's role as a catalyst of social and spiritual transformation, James Harris advocates the salient features of liberation preaching, especially as exemplified in black-church settings.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction: A Liberation and Transformation Homiletic | p. 1 |
| Telling It Like It Is: From Liberation to Transformation | p. 8 |
| What Is Liberation and Transformation Preaching? | p. 8 |
| Preaching and the Language of Liberation and Prophecy | p. 13 |
| Preaching and the Kingdom of God | p. 15 |
| Preaching in Context | p. 16 |
| The Liberating and Transformative Message of Jesus | p. 16 |
| The Centrality of Theology in Preaching | p. 21 |
| God and Human Experience: How I Got Over | p. 22 |
| God Is Liberator | p. 24 |
| Preaching and Christology: Jesus and the Church | p. 27 |
| Jesus, the Liberator and Transformer | p. 30 |
| Who Is the Holy Spirit according to Scripture? | p. 32 |
| Preaching and the Holy Spirit | p. 34 |
| Preaching out of Season: The Centrality of History and Culture in Preaching | p. 37 |
| Licensed by the Spirit: Slave Preaching | p. 38 |
| The Priesthood of the Black Preacher: The African Connection | p. 43 |
| Preachers and Prophets: Turner, Garnett, and Jasper | p. 44 |
| Contextual Theology of Preaching Liberation | p. 50 |
| Prototypal Preaching and Worship for Liberation | p. 52 |
| Preaching to the Disinherited | p. 55 |
| Beginning with the Word: Hermeneutics and the Centrality of Preaching | p. 57 |
| Liberation Hermeneutics | p. 59 |
| The Nexus between Style and Substance | p. 62 |
| The Philosophical Approach to Preaching | p. 66 |
| Preaching and the Power of the Word: From Nommo to Logos | p. 70 |
| Preaching as Contextual Hermeneutics | p. 72 |
| Preaching as Linguistic Play | p. 73 |
| Challenge and Conflict: Preaching and the Black Male | p. 75 |
| Understanding the Status and Destiny of the Black Male | p. 77 |
| Education and the Black Male | p. 80 |
| Education Reform and the Black Male | p. 82 |
| Tracking or Homogeneous Ability Grouping in Education | p. 83 |
| Crime and Delinquency among Black Males | p. 85 |
| Health and Employment of the Black Male | p. 86 |
| Preaching the Liberating Truth to the People | p. 87 |
| Preaching from the Joseph Story: Two Sermons | p. 89 |
| Pressing toward the Mark: Meaning and Method in Textual Preaching | p. 98 |
| The Triadic Movement of the Sermon | p. 98 |
| Textual Preaching | p. 100 |
| Struggling against the Odds (A Dialectical Sermon) | p. 100 |
| From Torment to Tranquillity (A Sermon Fragment) | p. 107 |
| Divine Deliverance (A Sermon Fragment) | p. 110 |
| Notes | p. 114 |
| Annotated Bibliography | p. 124 |
| Index | p. 128 |
| Scripture Index | p. 135 |
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