Naming grace : preaching and the sacramental imagination /
Hilkert, Mary Catherine
Naming grace : preaching and the sacramental imagination / Mary Catherine Hilkert. - New York : Continuum, c1997. - 252 p.; 24 cm.
Contents: The dialectical imagination: the power of the word -- The sacramental imagination: grace enfleshed in word and action -- Preaching as the art of naming grace -- Words from the future -- Trust the text or preach the Gospel? -- The human story and the story of Jesus -- Grace at the edges: preaching and lament -- Handing on "the pledge entrusted" (1 Tim 6:20; 2 Tim 1:14): doctrinal preaching -- Women preaching the Gospel -- The Good News in different voices.
"It is not a lack of training in the art of rhetoric that accounts for the ineffectiveness of preaching within the Christian churches. More significant is the lack of adequate theological foundations. While recognizing the great contribution that neo-orthodoxy and the "dialectical imagination" have made, Hilkert's major contribution is a scholarly examination of the resources of the "sacramental imagination."
082641060X
Catholic church--Doctrines
Preaching
Catholic preaching
Grace (Theology)
Sacraments--Catholic Church
Imagination--Religious aspects--Catholic Church
Feminist theology
BV 4211.2 / .H55 1997
Naming grace : preaching and the sacramental imagination / Mary Catherine Hilkert. - New York : Continuum, c1997. - 252 p.; 24 cm.
Contents: The dialectical imagination: the power of the word -- The sacramental imagination: grace enfleshed in word and action -- Preaching as the art of naming grace -- Words from the future -- Trust the text or preach the Gospel? -- The human story and the story of Jesus -- Grace at the edges: preaching and lament -- Handing on "the pledge entrusted" (1 Tim 6:20; 2 Tim 1:14): doctrinal preaching -- Women preaching the Gospel -- The Good News in different voices.
"It is not a lack of training in the art of rhetoric that accounts for the ineffectiveness of preaching within the Christian churches. More significant is the lack of adequate theological foundations. While recognizing the great contribution that neo-orthodoxy and the "dialectical imagination" have made, Hilkert's major contribution is a scholarly examination of the resources of the "sacramental imagination."
082641060X
Catholic church--Doctrines
Preaching
Catholic preaching
Grace (Theology)
Sacraments--Catholic Church
Imagination--Religious aspects--Catholic Church
Feminist theology
BV 4211.2 / .H55 1997