Prophetic Preaching and Social Justice Ethics

3 credits · Divinity School

This course wrestles with the moral quandaries that church leaders and preachers often face in contemporary issues or conflicts. For example, how have faith and preaching been complicit in questions of hegemonies, power, and social injustice? What questions do we ask to clarify these conflicts, and can we answer them competently? What is the role of ethics methodology in preaching? How do we shape justice ethics or moral argument in preaching? What is the role of the pastor-prophet in our society? Topics will include: economic and class conflicts; racial, gender and sexual orientation conflicts; faith conflicts; questions of violence and resistance; and ecological/environmental issues. [3]