Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 The place of beauty in preaching
Chapter 2 To make the wounded whole: preaching on hymns
Chapter 3 Hear how the whole creation longs: preaching on music
Chapter 4 Quick- eyed love draws near: preaching on poetry
Chapter 5 Wonder reborn through beauty
Bibliography
Index
Thomas Troeger is J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz Professor of Christian Communication, Yale University
"Thomas Troeger gives beauty its "rightful place" in the pulpit. He
combines rich evidence with keen insight to expose the aesthetic
dimension of religious activity. He answers a previously unmet need
for a homiletics based on art, producing an eclectic theory wherein
preaching grows from works of art. He fortifies his theory with a
wide and discerning selection of scriptural passages, music texts,
hymns, and poems and with his own model sermons on the arts."
-- William D. Dean, author of The American Spiritual Culture: And
the Invention of Jazz, Football, and the Movies
"Thomas Troeger, one of our finest hymn writers and homiletical
scholars, has joined his gifts to produce this stirring doxology to
beauty in preaching. This book elevates the art of preaching, but
what is even more impressive, it lifts the soul."
--Thomas G. Long, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
"Through the centuries the church has had an approach-avoidance
relationship with beauty. In this insightful volume Troeger defines
and stretches our concepts of wonder, beauty and aesthetics. He
helps us understand their power - especially in music - to inspire
the worshipper as well as to shape the church and its mission.
Casting the sermon as a 'theomusical homiletic,' he illuminates
multiple layers of meaning that form the 'soundscape' of our faith.
Those
who lead worship know intuitively the spiritual vibrancy that
results from these encounters - here, Troeger gives us the reasons
behind that intuition."
-- Eileen Guenther, Associate Professor of Church Music and
Director of the Summer Program, Wesley Theological Seminary
"Explores an important issue for all churches:how godly wonder can
be reborn through renewed attention to the place of beauty in
preaching and worship."--NewCatholicBooks
"Like all good books, this one begs the reader to enter into the
argument and go beyond it. All Troeger's examples are the result of
artistic expressions of the Christian faith...For most of us, this
sort of preaching will require hard work in discovering the
meanings of poetry and music, but Troeger assures us that we will
find God in those meanings and have our wonder
reborn."--Interpretation
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