The urgency for this book is felt throughout as the identity of the pastor is at stake. Who is the pastor, what is the pastor's role, not only in church but also in representing the Christian faith in wider society? And even more pressing: what does …
Christian theology, though, aims to focus on the subject of the uniqueness and the essence of the revelation of Jesus Christ. In this essay I approach this question from the perspective of Christian spirituality. ‘Salvation is from the Jews’, Jesus …
Preaching has been a means of moral and political communication. In this article we address the question how preaching addresses societal issues, focusing upon the case of what has been called the ‘European refugee crisis’. Relating to the conference …
Empirical research in homiletics tends to focus upon the individual listener. This seems equally true for earlier quantitative as well as for the current dominant paradigm of qualitative research. This paper explores the boundaries between the …
[...] In order to address the question of how the use of the Bible in Protestantism interacts with culture, I depart from two assumptions. First, Protestantism stimulated a specific use of the Bible, indicated by practices like the authority of …
Preaching is in transition, so is homiletics as the theory of preaching. In this article the development of homiletics in the Low Countries is explored as a case-study within the dynamics of international homiletical thought. The material for this …
Auch wenn der konfessionelle Status sicher zur weltweiten Verbreitung des Lehrbuchs beigetragen hat, ist die Brauchbarkeit für die Glaubensunterweisung im 21. Jahrhundert auf dem Kontinent, wo der HK zuerst gedruckt wurde, nicht mehr …
The theme of our conference explores how the pictures of God that we create in a sermon relate to listeners that inhabit a fragmented existence. The human condition is fragmented in itself. We rather live in ruins, the late German …
The Ninth meeting of Societas Homiletica was held from August 1 to 5, 2010, on the campus of Yale Divinity School. In this collection you will read the presidential and keynote addresses that were delivered as well as the papers that were submitted …