Homiletical Peonage: The Pedagogical Dilemma Whiteness Creates
This article revisits a key theme in retired Princeton Seminary homiletics professor James F. Kay’s work, preaching as a promissory-kerygmatic saving event. Kay calls for a disciplinary turn in theoretical focus in homiletics, lamenting homiletics’ over-reliance on theories of rhetoric to account fo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
2022
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Theology today
Year: 2022, Volume: 79, Issue: 1, Pages: 67-76 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history RE Homiletics |
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Willie James Jennings
B Salvation B homiletical peonage B Frederick L. Ware B homiletical pedagogy B James F. Kay B Rudolf Bultmann B Black preaching B promissory kerygmatics B African American preaching |
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| Summary: | This article revisits a key theme in retired Princeton Seminary homiletics professor James F. Kay’s work, preaching as a promissory-kerygmatic saving event. Kay calls for a disciplinary turn in theoretical focus in homiletics, lamenting homiletics’ over-reliance on theories of rhetoric to account for its distinctiveness and argues that theological analysis of preaching leads us to a better understanding of preaching’s essential core and function as Christian proclamation. After briefly summarizing Kay’s proposal on this topic, I bring to bear upon it a central criterion of Black preaching theory and praxis: groundedness in the concrete experience and ongoing legacies of racial injustice. This article’s fundamental question is, “In view of its European developmental origins, does promissory kerygmatics offer a theological theorization of preaching adequate to the demands of Black preaching pedagogy and praxis today?” |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/00405736211065469 |