Pub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1177/00405736241236828
David G. Latimore
This article examines Black preaching as a vital force in African American communities, offering a powerful testament to resilience, spiritual enlightenment, and social transformation. Black preaching emerges as a beacon of hope and resistance amidst oppressive conditions, weaving together theological insight, cultural richness, and communal resilience. Through a rich historical lens, the article explores the performative and substantive dimensions of Black preaching, highlighting its capacity to navigate complex theological and social realities. While acknowledging moments of complicity and challenge within Black preaching, this article emphasizes its enduring legacy as a catalyst for liberation and justice. Ultimately, Black preaching emerges as a dynamic expression of faith, embodying the enduring struggle for dignity, justice, and freedom within the African American experience.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1177/00405736241226870
Frank A. Thomas
This article grapples with the quest for “written orality,” that is, the orality of the preacher's voice in writing and developing the written text of the sermon that more easily translates into the oral voice in the delivery of the sermon. In close discussion with Carl Hoefler in his classic work, Creative Preaching and Oral Writing, I develop five characteristics of written orality in sermons: imagination, the dramatic/active voice, authentic conversation, person-centered writing, and revisions that include the body.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1177/00405736241240288d
Christian T. Iosso
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Pub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1177/00405736241226874
Carlton D. Johnson
The myth of the African American's ability to separate ourselves from our pain was born amidst the unprecedented violence and innumerable deaths of the Transatlantic Slave trade. It continued throughout the three centuries of enslavement of people of African descent in America. In America, there is still a societal, as well as medical, expectation, that African Americans avoid deep acknowledgment of trauma, grief, and mourning. In an ecology of massive and ongoing health disparities (resulting in death) and sustained violence against African Americans, some African American preachers, and the churches they pastor, abide treatment of grief as a matter that should be given limited attention and moved beyond quickly. A combination of historical research and qualitative ethnography was used to identify past and present-day practices. A series of in-person interviews provided revelations as well as affirmation of the impact of these preaching and pastoral practices. Among African Americans interviewed and studied who experience preaching and the type of pastoral care that supports “a theology of expedient mourning,” many shared that their church did not provide the space and support needed to adequately grieve their losses. My research revealed how the notion of truncated bereavement has influenced harsher realities beyond the walls of the church, even to the hallways of corporate America. A modified proclamation about the importance of adequate support during individual as well as communal grief and mourning is needed for survivors to (re)consider the African American church a place of refuge and healing.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1177/00405736241226880
Jonathan C. Augustine
The 2023 Black Theology and Leadership Initiative convened around the theme, “Searching for the Soul of Black Preaching.” Rather than focusing on the performative aspects of Black preaching, as an art form, the convening looked substantively at the soul of Black preaching, that is, its very essence. What does it mean to provide hope to a people who have historically been marginalized, as part of the Black experience in America? In relying on some of America's most respected scholars, as well as some of my own previously published works, I argue that the soul of Black preaching includes four fundamental elements. First, with the centrality of Scripture, Black preaching is based on a fundamental belief that God's providence meets the Black lived experience. Second, as a natural extension of the first element, I argue there is a biblical hermeneutic that sees Scripture as “biased,” because God is not neutral. Instead, God is on the side of the oppressed. Third, in recognizing that the Black preacher's work is incomplete without divine intervention, I discuss the transcendence of the Holy Spirit for “participant proclamation” as part of the Black worship experience. Finally, in looking at the social justice nature of Black preaching, in speaking to a marginalized class, I argue that in addition to focusing on piety, Black preaching is often prophetic and/or political. In answering the rhetorical question of who is searching for the “soul” of Black preaching, I therefore argue that based on the four elements listed above, and the way Black preaching has been a rallying call for the Black community from the period of enslavement onward, the soul of Black preaching has never been lost.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736241240288
Franklin Tanner Capps
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736231203448a
Heath D. Dewrell
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736231190317
Marius Nel
The prevailing trend among members of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa (AFM of SA) is to interpret the Bible in a biblicist and literalist way, which conflicts with how early Pentecostals read the Bible. Empirical research completed in 2020 supports the observation. In contrast, early Pentecostals read the Bible with the expectation of meeting God. Their precritical, canonical, and text-centered interpretation focused on the text inductively before they deductively compared it with related texts in a straightforward manner to formulate their teaching. The new generation of Pentecostals applied conservative Evangelical hermeneutics to focus on the world behind the text, using the historical-grammatical method to arrive objectively at the author's intended meaning. It was rooted in the Scottish Common-Sense school of philosophy in a synthesis with the Baconian method. Their new hermeneutic was based on a theory of inspiration that accepted that divine revelation terminated at the end of the first century, resulting in a discrepancy that conflicts with Pentecostals’ expectation for extrabiblical revelations, miracles, and wonders to continue. The article aims to suggest an alternative hermeneutical approach that can constructively address the discrepancy, based on the recently developed scholarly hermeneutic that employs post-critical and postmodern approaches such as literary, reader-response, and advocacy hermeneutics. It utilizes quantitative research and a comparative literature study to realize the aim.
南非使徒信仰传教会(AFM of SA)成员中流行的趋势是以圣经主义和字面主义的方式来解释圣经，这与早期五旬节派信徒阅读圣经的方式相冲突。2020年完成的实证研究支持了这一观点。相反，早期的五旬节派读经是带着与神相遇的期待。他们的前批判式、正典式和以文本为中心的解释侧重于文本的归纳性，然后再以直接的方式将其与相关文本进行演绎比较，从而形成他们的教学。新一代的五旬节派运用保守的福音派诠释学来关注文本背后的世界，使用历史语法的方法来客观地达到作者的意图。它植根于苏格兰常识哲学流派，是与培根方法的综合。他们的新诠释学基于一种灵感理论，这种理论认为神的启示在一世纪末就终止了，这与五旬节派对圣经外的启示、奇迹和奇迹继续存在的期望产生了矛盾。本文旨在提出一种替代的解释学方法，可以建设性地解决这种差异，基于最近发展的学术解释学，采用后批判和后现代的方法，如文学，读者回应和倡导解释学。本文采用定量研究和比较文献研究的方法来实现这一目标。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736231190320
Cathal Doherty
This article is a contribution to an ecumenical theology of the Word, examining how divine absolution is realized in concrete human experience. It addresses both the scriptural and sacramental mediation of divine absolution, emphasizing the commonality of both resting on the power of God's word spoken in human concrete actuality. The philosophical literature concludes that human beings, in order for forgiveness to be real to them, need to hear and know that they are forgiven. In other words, for forgiveness to be complete, the wrongdoer requires an act of “absolution” (even in a secular sense), which may be verbal or gestural. This observation then drives our theological inquiry. How does divine Providence condescend in the economy of Revelation to make divine absolution available in the concrete details of human life, since it must be available to us, if it is to be received and accepted and be real to us? This investigation assumes that understanding forgiveness in human experience better serves to enrich theological reflection on divine forgiveness. The fact that forgiveness in human experience is primarily a dialogical affair, worked out in a “dialogical narrative” (Griswold) that parallels the dialogical nature of salvation, is evidenced in Scripture. In scriptural mediation, divine absolution becomes a living reality through a “hermeneutic of identity” by which the hearer of the Word appropriates the indexical language of a text, and, for example, self-inserts into a ready-made dialogue. In this way, God's absolution is effectively made a present reality. Finally, the article argues that Christ's words should be considered among his salvific acts, including his absolutions of individual sinners. The immanent expression of divine absolution, therefore, comes through the hypostatic union of the divine and human natures in historical concreteness, providing one avenue of response to the timeless theological question Cur Deus homo?
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736231190330
Viorel Coman
The article reflects on the ecumenical relevance of the encyclical of Pope John Paul II in light of the most recent developments in the Christian Orthodox world: the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (Crete, 2016) and the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, which determined the Moscow Patriarchate to sever ties with the Constantinople Patriarchate, as the latter recognized the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Both the absence of four autocephalous churches from the Council of Crete and the conflict between Constantinople and Moscow over Ukraine shows the very serious conciliar crisis of the Orthodox Church, which reveals a fragmented rather than symphonic Orthodoxy. This article argues that the hermeneutics of ecumenical receptivity that underpins the Encyclical Ut Unum Sint could also guide the Orthodox Church toward a solution to the crisis that affects its synodality or sobornicity. Just as Pope John Paul II invited all Christian churches to a joint reflection on the exercise of primacy, so the Orthodox Church should invite other Christian to a joint reflection on the practice of synodality. In the process of relearning how the embody synodality more fully, the Orthodox Church could benefit from the dialogue with the Christian other.
这篇文章反映了教皇约翰·保罗二世的通谕在基督教东正教世界的最新发展中的普世意义:东正教会的神圣和大会议(克里特岛，2016年)和正在进行的乌克兰危机，这决定了莫斯科宗主教区与君士坦丁堡宗主教区断绝关系，因为后者承认乌克兰东正教会的独立性。克里特岛大公会议中没有四个独立的教会，君士坦丁堡和莫斯科在乌克兰问题上的冲突，都显示出东正教会非常严重的大公会议危机，这揭示了一个支离破碎的东正教，而不是一个和谐的东正教。本文认为，支撑《合一圣谕》(Ut Unum Sint)的普世接受性解释学，也可以指导东正教会解决影响其团契性或宗教性的危机。就像教皇约翰·保罗二世邀请所有基督教会共同反思首要地位的行使一样，东正教会也应该邀请其他基督教会共同反思主教地位的实践。在重新学习如何更充分地体现教会性的过程中，东正教会可以从与基督教他者的对话中获益。
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