PTMS36 9 - Intermediate Preaching

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Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School

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Gail A. Ricciuti Prerequisite: PT 118 Beyond the basic approaches and skills for sermon development and preaching, a number of deeper questions and issues face the preacher in a parish context. Among them are: - problematic biblical perspectives (and/or conundrums) appropriate to ancient peoples but begging reinterpretation for contemporary believers (including the meaning/use of myth, standpoints on violence, misogyny, universalism and particularity); - the challenge of intracongregational situations, frictions and attitudes; - pastoral occasions related to significant rites of passage in life (baptism, confirmation and profession of faith; weddings; funerals); - the task of addressing Christian social responsibility in the face of societal and global issues particular to our day (including domestic violence; militarism, war and peace; and issues of diversity); and - ways to make preaching vital, engaging and compelling in a media-soaked world. While exploring and addressing these issues, the course will also work with other specific homiletical/contextual problems and predicaments brought to the table by students from within their current settings in ministry.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.crcds.edu

Phone Number:

(585) 271-1320

Calendar System:

Semester

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