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While everyone might affirm that preaching needs to engage its listeners deeply, the initial move for novice preachers is to think this can be attained by livelier content and delivery of the sermon. All too quickly, however, one learns that there are many factors beyond what a preacher says and how she or he may say it that affect whether proclamation can actually be heard. Effective preaching requires the complex work of knowing the context in which preaching occurs, while avoiding the twin dangers of pandering to a situation's particulars or generalizing them into stereotypes. Knowing the Context reveals how to engage contexts for preaching, especially ways to examine contexts more responsibly, so that the sermon might more amply bring the word of Scripture to bear on the worlds and lives of listeners.
In one of the initial titles in the Elements of Preaching series, James Nieman shows how preaching is oriented to specific locales, cultural situations, audiences, and occasions. Unlike other books that tell preachers how to preach to specific audiences, Knowing the Context helps readers analyze the situations in which they find themselves and shows how text and context are in a continuing dialogue and how to tailor sermons to their context. Keyed to online sermon samples and other Web-based features to enhance teaching.
Author
James R. Nieman
Book Format
paperback
Publisher
1517 Media
Published
May 2008
Weight
155g
Page Count
96
Dimensions
144 x 215 x 8 mm
ISBN
9780800662622
ISBN-10
0800662628
Eden Code
1194343
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Author/Creator: James R. Nieman
ISBN: 9780800662622
Publisher: 1517 Media
Release Date: May 2008
Weight: 155g
Dimensions: 144 x 215 x 8 mm
Eden Code: 1194343