Born to Preach : Essays in Honor of the Ministry of Henry and Ella Mitchell

by Roberts, Samuel K.

• ISBN13: 9780817013684
• ISBN10: 0817013687
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Judson Pr

Summary

This tribute to the ministry of Henry and Ella Mitchell explores the impact this dynamic couple has had on the wondrous task of preaching in today's black community. The first volume of its kind produced by an African American faculty, Born to Preach offers a series of essays, written from the respective disciplines of ten faculty members from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University.

Author Biography

The Rev. Drs. Henry H. and Ella P. Mitchell are visiting professors at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, where they have been team-teaching for more than ten years Samuel K. Roberts is professor of Christian ethics at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Biblical Criticism and the Art of Preaching: What in the World Is Preaching the Gospel?	1	(21)
Boykin Sanders
The Cultural Affinity Between the Ancient Yahwists and the African Americans: A Hermeneutic for Homiletics	22	(18)
Jerome Clayton Ross
Preaching in the Context of Poverty, Economic Marginalization, and the Ideal of Social Justice	40	(15)
Robert Wafawanaka
The Sermon as a Submitted Statement	55	(8)
Miles Jerome Jones
The Solitary Place	63	(8)
Nathan Dell
The Moral Task of African American Preaching	71	(11)
Samuel Kelton Roberts
Of Self, Sound, and Sacredness	82	(18)
Victoria L. Pratt
Women and Preaching: Telling the Story in Our Own Voice	100	(13)
Patricia A. Gould-Champ
Retexturization of a Tradition: A Womanist Hermeneutical Complex for Understanding the Religio-Historical Value of the African American Sermonic Genre	113	(21)
Alison P. Gise Johnson
A Worthy Legacy: Preaching to Teach	134	(13)
Gloria C. Taylor
About the Contributors	147