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The Academy of Homiletics The Academy of Homiletics 2006 Annual Meeting Marriott Hotel West Palm Beach, Florida “Preaching for Renewal, Transformation and Liberation” Hosted by: Palm Beach Atlantic University Terriel Byrd Gerald Kisner Joseph Webb 1 Table of Contents Introduction to the Papers of the Annual Meeting…………………………………………….5 Hermeneutics and Biblical Study James Nieman and Wesley Allen, Conveners Conveners’ Note…………………………………………………………………………………..6 Dislocated Exegesis Charles Campbell…………………………………………………………………………7 Reading Drunk in Search of Naked Truth: A Care for Ideological Commitments Lincoln E. Galloway……………………………………………………………………..12 In What Ways Is the Bible Relevant to Our Context and Concerns? Dawn Ottoni Wilhelm……………………………………………………………………17 History of Preaching Joey Jeter, Convener Erasmus and the Renewal of Preaching Michael Pasquarello III…………………………………………………………………..20 “More Mobile Than Any Motion:” A Liberative Approach to the Operative Theologies of Disciple Preaching Kay Bessler Northcutt……………………………………………………………………30 W are 4 Keep this Place: The Preaching and Missionary Activities of Arthur Wellington Clah Robert P. Hoch…………………………………………………………………………...42 Learning from History: a homiletical approach to a divided church Raewynne J. Whiteley…………………………………………………………………...53 Justice, Ethics and the Preaching Task Christine Smith, Convener “Helpin’ Me Resist and Refuse:” Class-Consciousness and Preaching Brooks Berndt……………………………………………………………………………63 Hearing the Eunuch’s Children: A Study of Sermons Preached in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Communities Mark Lee…………………………………………………………………………………73 2 Preaching the Promised Land for the Canaanites Duncan Macpherson………………………………………………………………..........83 What I Now Think vis-à-vis Homiletic Theory John S. McClure………………………………………………………………………….91 Embodying Wisdom and Preaching Justly: Reconsidering Matthew 26: 6-13 Katy Rigler……………………………………………………………………………...101 Preaching Ethnic Atonement: A Homiletic Study of Ephesians 2: 11-18 Noel Schoonmaker……………………………………………………………………...112 Narrative and Imagination Thomas Troeger, Convener Journey to Mt. Horeb: Cognitive Theory and I Kings 19: 1 – 18 J. Dwayne Howell and Susan H. Howell……………………………………………….121 Woe to Those that Are at Ease in Zion: Preaching in the Black Church and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Marvin A. McMickle…………………………………………………………………...127 A Positive Theology of Imagination for Preaching Renewal, Liberation and Transformation Thomas H. Troeger……………………………………………………………………..135 Collaborative Re-Authoring: the sermon and narrative epistemology Tanya Wittwer………………………………………………………………………….145 Pedagogy Andre Resne, Convener LI OYUNE (I am Here): Gospel Brought Alive in Mayan Indigenous Community, and Implications for Homiletic Pedagogy in the United States Deborah A. Organ………………………………………………………………………155 Preaching and Worship Craig Satterlee, Convener The Work of Our Hands: Listener Involvement in Liturgical Preaching Jim Schmitmeyer……………………………………………………………………….165 3 Rhetoric Robert Reid, Convener Art Has Its Reasons: The Emerging Role of the Arts in Protestant Congregations Lynne M.Baab………………………………………………………………………….172 The Rhetoric of Remembering: One of These Days Someone’s Going to Need this Sermon Peter W. Rehwaldt……………………………………………………………………...182 Rhetorical Situation and Asian Theology for Transformational Preaching Richard H. Park…………………………………………………………………………191 Dancing at the Edge of Rhetoric Robert Stephen Reid……………………………………………………………………199 Horizontverschmelzung (Horizon Fusion), Katallage (Reconciliation) and the Odyssey’s Inverse Smiles: A Gadamerian/Pauline Reading of Penelope’s and Odysseus’ Exchange P. Christopher Smith……………………………………………………………………209 Theology and Preaching Joseph Webb, Convener Removing the Barriers between Black and White Churches Terriel R. Byrd………………………………………………………………………….219 Quantitative Empirical Studies of Preaching: Do Sermons Persuade? Cliff Guthrie…………………………………………………………………………….229 Preaching and the Church’s Participation in the Life of God L. Roger Owens………………………………………………………………………...239 Economy according to the Trinity – a particular challenge for preaching Arthur VanSeters……………………………………………………………………….247 “The Large and Boundless Chamber:” Long-Term Memory and the Future of Contemporary Preaching Joseph M. Webb………………………………………………………………………...257 Preach the Text or Preach the Gospel? Paul Scott Wilson……………………………………………………………………….267 4 Introduction to the Papers of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Homiletics West Palm Beach, Florida: November 30 – December 2, 2006 Perhaps this year’s annual meeting theme would be appropriate for any time in history. Yet, there seems a special urgency at the present hour to focus our attention on “Preaching for Renewal, Transformation, and Liberation.” Those of us who live in the United States are painfully aware of the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Our hearts have broken many times over as we have gazed at photographs from southern Lebanon, northern Israel, Gaza, and a tiny Amish school house in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. We hear God’s name spoken in the public square but wonder who this God is who sanctions violence and calls for revenge. What word shall we speak in the midst of such a world? What shall we teach our students as they move out from classroom to pulpit? What words of challenge and encouragement can we share with one another as this year comes to an end? Thankfully, the Academy of Homiletics has never been called “The American Academy of Homiletics.” Our membership extends far beyond the United States, including not only Canada, but reaching far beyond North America. You will see that this year’s academy papers come from as near as our host school in West Palm Beach, Florida and as far away as Australia, South Korea and London. We again anticipate Academy members from Scandinavia joining us as well. In the pages that follow you will find some papers that directly address the conference theme, “Preaching for Renewal, Transformation, and Liberation.” Other papers relate more closely to themes of particular working groups, though connections to the theme may also be heard. As in the past the papers are grouped according to Academy working groups with conveners named in the Table of Contents. Hopefully, you will have a chance to read many of these papers before coming to West Palm Beach. Grateful thanks to each person who wrote a paper for this year’s meeting. This gratitude is extended to full-time faculty as well as several graduate students who have written papers this year. Even a quick reading of the Table of Contents should whet your appetite to open the files and see what in the world a certain writer had in mind (even if that writer isn’t part of your work group). Now as the days turn colder, as leaves are falling here in the northeastern part of the United States, and 22 inches of snow have already fallen on Buffalo, we look forward to spending a warm weekend together in West Palm Beach, Florida. We hope you will be there to engage this year’s timely theme, to greet colleagues from across the world, and perhaps – at least once – to walk barefoot on the beach. Barbara K. Lundblad First Vice President Note: The copyright of these papers belongs to the individual authors. 5 HERMENEUTICS AND BIBLE STUDY Note from the Conveners For the last few years, the Hermeneutics and Bible Study Group has attempted to develop roundtable conversations around various topics by inviting a panel of scholars to develop short, provocative papers as conversation starters. The following topics have been considered: 2003.....................The Authority of Scripture for Preaching 2004.....................Teaching Exegesis for Preaching 2005.....................Homiletical Approaches to Contrary Biblical Texts This year’s discussion topic involves the issue of the social location of the preacher and the congregation in the connection between biblical interpretation and preaching. Our three panelists—Charles L. Campbell, Lincoln E. Galloway, and Dawn Ottoni Wilhelm—approach the topic from different perspectives, promising an engaging session. O.W.A. and J.R.N. 6 Dislocated Exegesis Charles L. Campbell Columbia Theological Seminary Have you ever read a chapter from the book of Revelation out loud in a mall? How about the Sermon on the Mount in the unfinished attic of a church? Or the Gospel of Mark on a city bus? Although the importance of social location (e.g. race, gender, and socio-economic status) for biblical interpretation has been widely recognized in recent years, less attention has been given to the importance of physical location—the actual physical spaces in which people, including preachers, read and interpret Scripture. However, as I hope the above examples suggest, the physical spaces in which we read texts color the ways we interpret those texts, as well as the ways those texts interpret the world around us. Indeed, in the different physical locations through which we move in life, elements of “social location” may take on different priority and meaning. In addition to “social location,” greater attention needs to be given to “physical location” in biblical interpretation.1 About a decade ago, my New Testament colleague, Stan Saunders, and I began to explore the importance of physical location as we team-taught courses and struggled to help students engage with Scripture in fresh ways. We noticed that when students (and professors!) interpreted texts in the classroom, the interpretations tended to be rather abstract and academic; students even seemed to distance themselves from
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