New Perspectives on Preaching

3 credits · Graduate School

Homiletic theory and practice have undergone tremendous changes in the past century. This course traces developments from the deductive and propositional homiletics of the late nineteenth century, through the liberal topical and "project" method of the early twentieth century, new-orthodox and Barthian emphases, inductive homiletics, narrative homiletics, structuralist and phenomenological models, and more recent postmodern construals of homiletic theory. Students will read and analyze sermons using these theories, and opportunity will be given to construct sermons using these methods as well. [3]