Wonder Reborn
Creating Sermons on Hymns, Music, and Poetry
Seiten
2010
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-539888-5 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-539888-5 (ISBN)
This book explores how godly wonder can be reborn through renewed attention to the place of beauty in preaching and worship. It develops a theological understanding of beauty, and then demonstrates through the author's own sermons how preachers can give witness to that beauty through sermons based on hymns, music and poetry.
This book explores an issue at the nerve of the long term health of all churches: how godly wonder can be reborn through renewed attention to the place of beauty in preaching and worship.
The book opens with an exploration of the theological and cultural difficulties of defining beauty. It traces the church's historical ambivalence about beauty and art, and how in our own day the concept of beauty has been commercialized and degraded. Troeger develops a theologically informed aesthetic that provides a counter cultural vision of beauty flowing from the love of God.
The book then demonstrates how preachers can reclaim the place of beauty in preaching and worship. Chapter two employs the concept of midrash to mine the history of congregational song as a resource for sermons. Chapter three introduces methods from musicology for creating sermons on instrumental and choral works and for integrating word and music more effectively. Chapter four explores how the close relationship between poetry and prayer can stir the homiletical imagination. Each of these chapters includes a selection of the author's sermons illustrating how preachers can use these varied art forms to open a congregation to the beauty of God.
A final chapter recounts the responses of congregation members to whom the sermons were delivered. It uses the insights gained from those experiences to affirm how the human heart hungers for a vision of wonder and beauty that empowers people to live more faithfully in the world.
This book explores an issue at the nerve of the long term health of all churches: how godly wonder can be reborn through renewed attention to the place of beauty in preaching and worship.
The book opens with an exploration of the theological and cultural difficulties of defining beauty. It traces the church's historical ambivalence about beauty and art, and how in our own day the concept of beauty has been commercialized and degraded. Troeger develops a theologically informed aesthetic that provides a counter cultural vision of beauty flowing from the love of God.
The book then demonstrates how preachers can reclaim the place of beauty in preaching and worship. Chapter two employs the concept of midrash to mine the history of congregational song as a resource for sermons. Chapter three introduces methods from musicology for creating sermons on instrumental and choral works and for integrating word and music more effectively. Chapter four explores how the close relationship between poetry and prayer can stir the homiletical imagination. Each of these chapters includes a selection of the author's sermons illustrating how preachers can use these varied art forms to open a congregation to the beauty of God.
A final chapter recounts the responses of congregation members to whom the sermons were delivered. It uses the insights gained from those experiences to affirm how the human heart hungers for a vision of wonder and beauty that empowers people to live more faithfully in the world.
Thomas Troeger is J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz Professor of Christian Communication, Yale University
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.8.2010 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 211 x 147 mm |
| Gewicht | 377 g |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-539888-2 / 0195398882 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-539888-5 / 9780195398885 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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