Ingenuity : preaching as an outsider /

Ingenuity : preaching as an outsider /

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Author / Creator:Thompson, Lisa L., author.
Imprint:Nashville : Abingdon Press, [2018]
©2018
Description:xv, 193 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Preaching -- History.
Women in Christianity -- History.
Sermons, American -- Women authors.
African American preaching.
African American women clergy.
Women, Black -- Religion.
African American women clergy.
African American preaching.
Preaching.
Sermons, American -- Women authors.
Women, Black -- Religion.
Women in Christianity.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13217130
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ISBN:150183259X
9781501832598
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface: The Question(s) in the Room
  • Introduction: #Perceived Outsider
  • Personhood and Pulpit Personas
  • Faux Pioneering in the Ministries of Black Women
  • Resetting the Rules of Engagement
  • Chapter 1. When Bodies and Unimaginative Practice Collide
  • Black. Woman. Preacher
  • The Limits and Dangers of Unimaginative Practice
  • The Collision of Unimaginative Practice with Real Bodies
  • An Act of Constrained Invention
  • Chapter 2. Ingenuity for the Sake of Proclamation
  • Preaching as a Communally Defined Practice
  • Proclamation as a Marking Experience
  • The Black Preacher as a Ghostly Image
  • A Practice That Opens and Generatively Disrupts
  • Imitating, Mimicking, and Preaching
  • Communal Choreography and Sacred Vibrations
  • Chapter 3. Mining Life for Preaching
  • Connections and Bridges to Life
  • (Re) Imaginings of the Familiar
  • Ingenuity and Everyday Life
  • (Re)Imagining Sermon Development
  • Using the Familiar as a Resource
  • Chapter 4. Recovering Sacred Texts for Preaching
  • Interplay and Play
  • (Re) Imaginings of Texts
  • Ingenuity and Interpreting Scripture
  • (Re)Imagining Sermon Development
  • Creative Intelligence and interpretation
  • Chapter 5. Finding "A Word from the Lord" for Today
  • Very Present Truth
  • (Re)Imaginings for Here and Now
  • Ingenuity and Truth Telling
  • Immediacy Textured
  • Chapter 6. Locating God and Faith on the Ground
  • A Very Present Help
  • (Re)Imaginings of the Ordinarily Sacred
  • Ingenuity and the Story of Faith
  • (Re)Imagining Sermon Development
  • Sacred Storytelling
  • Conclusion: Risk-Taking for the Sake of Life
  • Leaving Space for Possibilities
  • Cultivating Risk-Taking for Ingenuity
  • Preach, Regardless
  • Notes

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