Voicing the Vision : Imagination and Prophetic Preaching

by Clader, Linda L.

• ISBN13: 9780819219329
• ISBN10: 0819219320
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Morehouse Pub Co

Summary

For more than a decade, popular homiletics professor Linda Clader has been helping her students become attentive to how the Holy Spirit is speaking to them, and eventually through them to the congregation. In "Voicing the Vision" she shares her ideas about what preachers can do to be open and receptive to the Spirit once the exegesis is done. Clader's approach to inspired and prophetic preaching is a holistic one, filled with suggestions about how the preacher's spiritual life and practice affect openness to the Spirit, as well as how various creative exercises can create spaces in which the Spirit can flourish. Her careful analysis of the biblical texts that illuminate how the Spirit works in those texts is supplemented by practical suggestions for noticing how the Spirit also works in the everyday life of preacher and congregation. This book will be a welcome companion for the seminarian who is just learning to preach, as well as the seasoned preacher who is looking for new inspiration.

Author Biography

Linda Clader is Professor of Homiletics and Dean of Academic Affairs at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction An Invitation and a Thank-you Note	vii
Chapter 1 Shifting Ground in the Sacred Space	1	(7)
Chapter 2 Playing at Creation	8	(16)
A Homily: Names	18	(6)
Chapter 3 Inspiration and the Language of the Tradition	24	(20)
Chapter 4 Listening in the Language of the Spirit: Breath	44	(13)
A Homily: Tohu wa Bohu	54	(3)
Chapter 5 Listening in the Language of the Spirit: Scent	57	(7)
Chapter 6 Listening in the Language of the Spirit: Voices and Visions	64	(20)
A Homily: Traction	78	(6)
Chapter 7 Toward Imaginative Preaching	84	(11)
A Homily: The Final Frontier	89	(6)
Chapter 8 A Gift Loosely Wrapped	95	(21)
A Homily: Junk	110	(6)
Chapter 9 Method Preaching?	116	(20)
A Homily: The Syro-Phoenician Woman	120	(11)
A Homily: Ordination	131	(5)
Chapter 10 A View from Off-Center	136	(23)
A Homily: Matthew	148	(3)
A Homily: Prodigal	151	(5)
A Homily: Intervention	156	(3)
Conclusion A Gentle Rhetoric for a Prophetic Community	159	(7)
A Homily: The Last Judgment	164	(2)
Suggestions for Further Reading	166