Preaching and the Theological Imagination

In an era in which The Episcopal Church and the Church of England have become increasingly alarmed about numerical decline, the editors examine sustained engagement with deepening the theological imagination of the whole Christian community, through renewed practices of, and approaches to, preaching, study, and spiritual development for Anglicans.

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Zachary Guiliano is a doctoral candidate in medieval history at St. John s College (Cambridge) and a Gates Cambridge Scholar (2012 2015). His research focuses on patristic and early medieval biblical interpretation, preaching, and religious life, especially on the uses of the Homiliary of Paul the Deacon in the Carolingian era. He is co-editor with Charles Stang of The Open Body: Essays in Anglican Ecclesiology (Peter Lang, 2012) and the author of articles in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Studia Patristica, and The Living Church. He is also editor of the Covenant weblog. Cameron E. Partridge is Lecturer and Counselor for Episcopal and Anglican Students at Harvard Divinity School and the Episcopal Chaplain at Boston University. He received his ThD from Harvard Divinity School, focusing on conceptions of embodiment, Christology, and asceticism in patristic and contemporary Christian theology. He is the author of essays in The Open Body: Essays in Anglican Ecclesiology (Peter Lang, 2012) and Theology and Sexuality (forthcoming).

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Contents: Ruthanna Hooke: Real Presence: Sacramental Embodiment in Preaching Matthew L. Potts: Giving an Account of God: Possibilities for a Sacramental Presence in Preaching Cameron E. Partridge: Preaching on the Hinges of the Holy: Toward a Homiletic Theology of the Christian Liturgial Year Zachary Guiliano: Patristic Allegorical Preaching as a Mimetic Technology: An Exploration and Proposal Regina L. Walton: George Herbert on the «Dangerous» Art of Preaching John N. Wall: Preaching to the Choir: Understanding Worship in an Aural Culture Simon Jackson: «Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word?»: Preaching and the Metaphysical Lyric Daniel Heischman: Preaching the Academy: From Cultured Despisers to Encultured Disclaimers Lizette Larson-Miller: Metaphorically Catechetical: The New Reality of Liturgical Preaching to Multiple Constituences C. Denise Yarbrough: Practicing the Theology of Companionship: Preaching an Interreliogious Gospel Joseph Lear: Preaching and Eschatology: Some New Testament Considerations Brad East: Preaching Peace in Violent Times: Faithful Approaches for Pacifist Pastors to Speak the Truth in Love Joel C. Daniels: To Speak of Horrors: Preaching Suffering, Human and Divine Dudley Rose: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Theology, Politics and Preaching amidst Suffering Simon Vibert: Preaching, Authority, and the Exercise of Power Ryan Cheolgyu Kim: Compassionate Preacher: The Ethos of Effective Preaching in the Age of Multiculturalism Roger A. Ferlo: Imagining Resurrection Margaret Guenther: In Hope of the Glory of God.