This course is designed to provide participants with advanced hermeneutical methods, skills, and tools to first interpret the Biblical texts from within its own historical, linguistic, sociocultural, theological, and spiritual contexts, and then learn how to preach them transformatively to address congregational needs and concerns. Students focus on how theological themes, narrative structures, and rhetorical movements in specific genres may effectively convey God’s message of salvation in Jesus Christ in a worshiping context. Students examine selected texts and themes for God’s call for repentance, justice, forgiveness, reconciliation, understanding, healing, comfort, support, empowerment, transformation, peace, and hope. Participants also look at their own faith development and temperaments out of which they may preach transformatively to others.
TM 523: Preaching in Context of Post-Modern World
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