Author: John Fletcher
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472029878
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Preaching to Convert offers an intriguing new perspective on the outreach strategies of U.S. evangelicals, framing them as examples of activist performance, broadly defined as acts performed before an audience in the hopes of changing hearts and minds. Most writing about activist performance has focused on left-progressive causes, events, and actors. Preaching to Convert argues against such a constricted view of activism and for a more nuanced understanding of U.S. evangelicalism as a movement defined by its desire to win converts and spread the gospel. The book positions evangelicals as a diverse, complicated group confronting the loss of conservative Christianity’s default status in 21st-century U.S. culture. In the face of an increasingly secular age, evangelicals have been reassessing models of outreach. In acts like handing out Bible tracts to strangers on the street or going door-to-door with a Bible in hand, in elaborately staged horror-themed morality plays or multimillion-dollar creationist discovery centers, in megachurch services beamed to dozens of satellite campuses, and in controversial “ex-gay” ministries striving to return gays and lesbians to the straight and narrow, evangelicals are redefining what it means to be deeply committed in a pluralist world. The book’s engaging style and careful argumentation make it accessible and appealing to scholars and students across a range of fields.
Preaching to Convert
Author: John Fletcher
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472029878
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Preaching to Convert offers an intriguing new perspective on the outreach strategies of U.S. evangelicals, framing them as examples of activist performance, broadly defined as acts performed before an audience in the hopes of changing hearts and minds. Most writing about activist performance has focused on left-progressive causes, events, and actors. Preaching to Convert argues against such a constricted view of activism and for a more nuanced understanding of U.S. evangelicalism as a movement defined by its desire to win converts and spread the gospel. The book positions evangelicals as a diverse, complicated group confronting the loss of conservative Christianity’s default status in 21st-century U.S. culture. In the face of an increasingly secular age, evangelicals have been reassessing models of outreach. In acts like handing out Bible tracts to strangers on the street or going door-to-door with a Bible in hand, in elaborately staged horror-themed morality plays or multimillion-dollar creationist discovery centers, in megachurch services beamed to dozens of satellite campuses, and in controversial “ex-gay” ministries striving to return gays and lesbians to the straight and narrow, evangelicals are redefining what it means to be deeply committed in a pluralist world. The book’s engaging style and careful argumentation make it accessible and appealing to scholars and students across a range of fields.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472029878
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Preaching to Convert offers an intriguing new perspective on the outreach strategies of U.S. evangelicals, framing them as examples of activist performance, broadly defined as acts performed before an audience in the hopes of changing hearts and minds. Most writing about activist performance has focused on left-progressive causes, events, and actors. Preaching to Convert argues against such a constricted view of activism and for a more nuanced understanding of U.S. evangelicalism as a movement defined by its desire to win converts and spread the gospel. The book positions evangelicals as a diverse, complicated group confronting the loss of conservative Christianity’s default status in 21st-century U.S. culture. In the face of an increasingly secular age, evangelicals have been reassessing models of outreach. In acts like handing out Bible tracts to strangers on the street or going door-to-door with a Bible in hand, in elaborately staged horror-themed morality plays or multimillion-dollar creationist discovery centers, in megachurch services beamed to dozens of satellite campuses, and in controversial “ex-gay” ministries striving to return gays and lesbians to the straight and narrow, evangelicals are redefining what it means to be deeply committed in a pluralist world. The book’s engaging style and careful argumentation make it accessible and appealing to scholars and students across a range of fields.
Evangelistic Preaching
Author: Lloyd M. Perry
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1579104274
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1579104274
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Practices of Christian Preaching
Author: Jared E. Alcántara
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 1493419765
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Leading homiletician Jared Alcántara offers a practice-centered, collaborative, technologically innovative, next-generation introductory preaching textbook. The book breaks new ground by adopting a practice-based approach to teaching preaching and by using innovative technological delivery to enhance the educational experience of learners. Alcántara introduces the basics of Christian preaching and emphasizes the skills preachers must cultivate throughout their lives. He shows that preachers can learn effective preaching by paying keen attention to five key competencies: conviction, context, clarity, concreteness, and creativity. Featuring the perspectives of a diverse team of collaborators, The Practices of Christian Preaching is designed to prepare effective communicators for the church's multicultural future. Call-outs in the book direct readers to a companion website for further information or practice. The online resources include audio and video sermons, video responses from the author, and contributions from collaborators, enabling Alcántara to coach students by showing them instead of just telling them. A Spanish language edition will be forthcoming.
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 1493419765
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Leading homiletician Jared Alcántara offers a practice-centered, collaborative, technologically innovative, next-generation introductory preaching textbook. The book breaks new ground by adopting a practice-based approach to teaching preaching and by using innovative technological delivery to enhance the educational experience of learners. Alcántara introduces the basics of Christian preaching and emphasizes the skills preachers must cultivate throughout their lives. He shows that preachers can learn effective preaching by paying keen attention to five key competencies: conviction, context, clarity, concreteness, and creativity. Featuring the perspectives of a diverse team of collaborators, The Practices of Christian Preaching is designed to prepare effective communicators for the church's multicultural future. Call-outs in the book direct readers to a companion website for further information or practice. The online resources include audio and video sermons, video responses from the author, and contributions from collaborators, enabling Alcántara to coach students by showing them instead of just telling them. A Spanish language edition will be forthcoming.
Evangelistic Preaching That Connects
Author: Craig A. Loscalzo
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830818631
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Craig A. Loscalzo shows how to develop evangelistic sermons that will appeal to today's audiences. He includes a rationale for evangelistic preaching, sample sermons and lots of practical advice.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830818631
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Craig A. Loscalzo shows how to develop evangelistic sermons that will appeal to today's audiences. He includes a rationale for evangelistic preaching, sample sermons and lots of practical advice.
Teaching Preaching as a Christian Practice
Author: Thomas G. Long
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 066423254X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Preachings most able practitioners gather in this book to explore and explain the idea that preaching is a practice that can be taught and learned. Arguing that preaching is a living practice with a long tradition, an identifiable shape, and a broad set of norms and desired outcomes, these noted scholars propose that teachers initiate students into the larger practice of preaching, in ways somewhat like other students are initiated into the practice of medicine or law. The book concludes with designs for a basic preaching course and addresses the question of how preaching courses fit into the larger patterns of seminary curricula.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 066423254X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Preachings most able practitioners gather in this book to explore and explain the idea that preaching is a practice that can be taught and learned. Arguing that preaching is a living practice with a long tradition, an identifiable shape, and a broad set of norms and desired outcomes, these noted scholars propose that teachers initiate students into the larger practice of preaching, in ways somewhat like other students are initiated into the practice of medicine or law. The book concludes with designs for a basic preaching course and addresses the question of how preaching courses fit into the larger patterns of seminary curricula.
Preparing Evangelistic Sermons
Author: Ramesh Richard
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 0801065747
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Ministry leader and evangelist provides readers with a proven, do-it-yourself method for effective evangelistic sermons.
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 0801065747
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Ministry leader and evangelist provides readers with a proven, do-it-yourself method for effective evangelistic sermons.
Evangelical preaching, commonly so denominated: its character: errors: and tendency: in a letter
Author: Richard Warner
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A Vindication of the Nature and Effect of Evangelical Preaching
Author: John Styles
Publisher:
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Category : Evangelicalism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Evangelicalism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Evangelistic Preaching
Author: Lloyd M. Perry
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725205580
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725205580
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
“Evangelical Preaching-commonly so denominated-its character; errors: and tendency: by the Rev. Richard Warner ... ” considered in a letter to a friend, by the Rev. T. T. Biddulph
Author: Thomas Tregenna BIDDULPH
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
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