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What and How of North American Lutheran Preaching
Author(s) -
Rogers Thomas G.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/j.0012-2033.2004.00217.x
Subject(s) - gospel , righteousness , narrative , verb , identification (biology) , noun , philosophy , theology , linguistics , sociology , epistemology , botany , biology
: This article suggests that an emphasis on how to preach, evidenced in the New Homiletic, can assist preachers in struggling with questions of what to preach. The narrative model of “problem”→“solution”→“what now?” has potential homiletical ties to Law (2 nd use)→ Gospel→ Law (3 rd use) theology. Since preaching 3 rd use of the Law can lead to a kind of works righteousness for hearers of such sermons, strategies are offered for dealing with preaching challenge . Preachers can put challenge before their hearers as a noun rather than as a verb; they can preach challenge as identification or questioning rather than as something hearers must do of their own accord.