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Homiletic: Moves and Structures

Homiletic

Moves and Structures

David Buttrick (Author)

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Buttrick presents a complete homiletic that focuses on how sermons form in consciousness and how the language of preaching functions in the communal consciousness of a congregation. His "phenomenological" approach marks a sharp departure from older homiletics.
  • Publisher Fortress Press
  • Format Paperback
  • ISBN 9780800620967
  • eBook ISBN 9781451406023
  • Dimensions 6 x 9
  • Pages 512
  • Publication Date March 1, 1987

Endorsements

"Everything about this book suggests that it is a most serious, most ambitious, most scholarly approach. Even the bibliographies make good reading. It's too good a book to limit only to people who preach."
— Martin E. Marty, Religious Book Club

"Here is the major book on the theory and construction of sermons for the Twentieth century. Sweeping claim! This is the most thorough discussion of our time."
— Donald K. McKim, Presbyterian Outlook

Table of Contents

  1. Preface to a Homiletic

    PART I: MOVES

    Words in the World


  2. Naming and Narration

    Moves
     
  3. Speaking in Moves
  4. Developing Moves
  5. Point-of-View in Moves
  6. Conjoining Moves

    Framework
     
  7. Framework—Introductions
  8. Framework—Conclusions

    Images
     
  9. Preaching—Image and Metaphor
  10. Examples and Illustrations
  11. The Image Grid

    Language
     
  12. Language
  13. The Language of Preaching
  14. Style and Preaching

    Words in the Church
     
  15. Preaching in Church and Out


    PART 2: STRUCTURES

    Hermeneutics
     
  16. Preaching and Authority
  17. The Place of Preaching
  18. Preaching as Hermeneutics

    Homiletics
     
  19. Plots and Intentions
  20. Stucturing
  21. "Moments" in Consciousness

    Structures
     
  22. Preaching in the Mode of Immediacy
  23. Preaching in the Reflective Mode
  24. The Reflective Mode: Logic of Movement
  25. Preaching and Praxis
  26. Structure in the Mode of Praxis

    Theology
     
  27. A Brief Theology of Preaching

    For Further Reading

    Part 1. Moves

    Phenomenology of Language
    Narrative Theology
    Recent Phetorical Studies
    Point-of-View
    Metaphirical Language
    Communication Studies
    Black Homiletics
    On Languagee
    Style


    PART 2: STRUCTURES

    Homiletic Bibliographies
    The Problem of Authority
    The Hermeneutical Problem
    Narrative Form
    Preaching Forms of the Hebrew Scriptures
    Preaching Forms of the Christian Scriptures
    Recent Homiletic Theory
    Theology of Preaching

    Acknowledgments
    Subject Index
    Scripture Index
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