Round Table/Collaborative Homiletic Method: John S. Mcclure
John S. McClure: Round Table/ Collaborative Homiletic Method:
John S. McClure is the professor of Homiletics and Liturgics at Louisville Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. He has written numerous articles and several books relating to homiletics. He advocates the collaborative method to preaching.
The word ‘collaborative’ means, “working together”. It suggests a form of preaching in which preacher and hearer joined to work together to create and interpret the topics for preaching. They try to decide together what the practical results of those interpretations might be for the congregation. The preacher goes into the pulpit and re - presents this collaborative process in the event of sermon delivery. Collaborative preaching is designed …show more content…
First, the preacher ought to do as the host. He initiates access to the pulpit to those whose interpretations and experiences may be very different. Secondly, it is a communal event. Roundtable conversations are communal in nature. All people cannot be bodily present in the pulpit at the same time. The roundtable pulpit times the voices of most participants in the life of the congregation. Thirdly, they should not give privilege to anyone voice. In this method, all the voices should be equally valued. The fourth is no open process. It is an open ended method. The homiletic conversation, by week by week, inwards and outward to include the constantly changing ideas and insights of those seated. And finally, this is a process with a purpose. It has the purpose. The purpose should be accomplished by the …show more content…
According to him, liberation theology is that God has shown and revealed Himself as the God of liberation. The God who was took the side of the oppressed, the exploited ones, the downtrodden, and the marginalised people. God sides concretely with the oppressed within the historical context of their struggle.
He considered that the incarnation is a historical event that signals God’s determination to liberate humanity from oppression and dehumanisation. Liberation theology is a theological response to the problems of poverty and injustice in our society. Liberation theology is a cry for justice. Liberation theology stands in the tradition of the Old Testament prophets and of Jesus Christ himself.
According to Tutu, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our Fathers, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ was known then first as the God of Exodus, the God of liberation. And the theme of setting Free, of rescuing captives or those who have been kidnapped is one that runs through the Bible as a golden thread. It is the important warp and woof of the Biblical
John S. McClure is the professor of Homiletics and Liturgics at Louisville Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. He has written numerous articles and several books relating to homiletics. He advocates the collaborative method to preaching.
The word ‘collaborative’ means, “working together”. It suggests a form of preaching in which preacher and hearer joined to work together to create and interpret the topics for preaching. They try to decide together what the practical results of those interpretations might be for the congregation. The preacher goes into the pulpit and re - presents this collaborative process in the event of sermon delivery. Collaborative preaching is designed …show more content…
First, the preacher ought to do as the host. He initiates access to the pulpit to those whose interpretations and experiences may be very different. Secondly, it is a communal event. Roundtable conversations are communal in nature. All people cannot be bodily present in the pulpit at the same time. The roundtable pulpit times the voices of most participants in the life of the congregation. Thirdly, they should not give privilege to anyone voice. In this method, all the voices should be equally valued. The fourth is no open process. It is an open ended method. The homiletic conversation, by week by week, inwards and outward to include the constantly changing ideas and insights of those seated. And finally, this is a process with a purpose. It has the purpose. The purpose should be accomplished by the …show more content…
According to him, liberation theology is that God has shown and revealed Himself as the God of liberation. The God who was took the side of the oppressed, the exploited ones, the downtrodden, and the marginalised people. God sides concretely with the oppressed within the historical context of their struggle.
He considered that the incarnation is a historical event that signals God’s determination to liberate humanity from oppression and dehumanisation. Liberation theology is a theological response to the problems of poverty and injustice in our society. Liberation theology is a cry for justice. Liberation theology stands in the tradition of the Old Testament prophets and of Jesus Christ himself.
According to Tutu, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our Fathers, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ was known then first as the God of Exodus, the God of liberation. And the theme of setting Free, of rescuing captives or those who have been kidnapped is one that runs through the Bible as a golden thread. It is the important warp and woof of the Biblical