Celebration and Experience in Preaching

Henry H. Mitchell’s great contribution to the study of preaching has been his insistence that the homiletical practices of the Black church are gifts to the whole church. Nowhere has he made this point more forcefully than in Celebration and Experience in Preaching. In this classic text he advocates a way of preaching that genuinely engages all aspects of the congregation’s attention, especially the ability to both understand and to feel the sermon’s message. In this revised edition Mitchell builds on this groundbreaking work by examining in greater depth the multiple ways in which we experience the preached word, by defining the different kinds of claim on the behavior of the hearer that biblical texts express, and by exploring various genres of sermon to discover the concrete manifestations of celebration and experience.

Features
Revised edition
Builds on Mitchell'g groundbreaking work by examining in greater depth the multiple ways in which we experience the preached word
Defines how biblical texts express different kinds of claims on the behaviour of the listener
Helps preachers address both the heads and hearts of the congregation
Enlivens the reader's preaching through a more thorough focus on celebration
Assists the reader in selecting biblical texts that lend themselves to specific behavoral outcomes

Henry H Michell is Professor Emeritus of Preaching at the Interdenominational Theological Centre in Georgia