Full Description
Preaching During a Pandemic: The Rhetoric of the Black Preaching Tradition is a two-volume collection of sermons from those who preach within the Black preaching tradition during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By publishing these sermons, the editors address questions such as what were those who preached in the Black preaching tradition sharing with their congregants? How were they incorporating and infusing COVID-19 in their sermons? What shape did the prophetic and priestly sermon take when preaching during a pandemic? Were specific models or types of sermons—womanist, prophetic/liberation, narrative, contemplative, celebrative, expository, thematic, induction, deductive—more frequently employed during a crisis?
Across the two volumes, the editors collate 29 sermons and provide detailed introductions to each book examining the context and themes of the texts in an illuminating and accessible manner. It will make fascinating reading for students and scholars of Communication and Religious Studies.
Contents
Acknowledgments - Introduction: The Rhetoric of the Black Pulpit: The Collection of Black Sermons - Ristina Gooden: What Happens in the Wilderness?: Genesis 16:7-13 (NRSV) - Heather S. Wills: Do Not Pass Me By: Exodus 11: 4-8 (NRSV) - Jamar Boyd II: Surviving Quarantine: Exodus 12:13, 22-23; Ephesians 3:16-19 (NIV) - Donna Vanhook: Hope in the Holla: Numbers 27:1- 5 (NRSV) - Howard-John Wesley: The Ministry of Manna: Deuteronomy 8:1-5 (NRSV) - Wallis C. Baxter III: What Does All this Mean?: Joshua 4:5-7 (NIV) - Tamara Kersey: Remembering God in Troubled Times: Psalm 20:6-8 (NKJV) - Aaron Marble: Singing Without a Sanctuary: Psalm 27:4-6 (NASB) - Andre E. Johnson: Pandemic Loneliness: Psalms 66:8-20, John 14:15-21 (NRSV) - Glencie Rhedrick: What's Going On?: Psalm 82:1-6 (NIV) - R. Janae Pitts- Murdock: I Can't Breathe: Isaiah 40:27-29 (NASB) - C. Dexter Wise III: Building Houses in Babylon: Jeremiah 29: 4-11 (NKJV) - Cory Jones: How Long? We Can't Breathe: Habakkuk 1:2 (NIV) - Patricia Robinson Williams: Lines Written Upon Reflection on Contemporary Moral Decay - Contributors.