Description: Groans of the Spirit constitutes a rousing challenge
to mainline churches and their practice of preaching. In this
inventive work, Timothy Slemmons calls preachers beyond the
formalism of the New Homiletic, and beyond the ethical proposals
that have arisen in the frustrated struggle to transcend it, and
toward what the author calls a ""penitential"" (reformed)
homiletic. This new homiletical proposal is distinctive in that it
faithfully adheres to the Christological content of preaching,
finds its inspiration in the promise of the real presence of
Christ, and trusts in the ministry of the Holy Spirit, from whom
alone the power for the renewal of the mainline church shall come.
This book includes a thorough reconsideration of the ""infinite
qualitative difference"" between God and humanity in Barth's
thought, an important critique of Gadamer's reception of
Kierkegaard's concept of contemporaneity, an undelivered lecture on
the content of preaching, and two sermons that illustrate
Slemmons's important proposals. Groans of the Spirit is a
long-considered, calculated, and overdue break with conventional
hermeneutics that proposes a vital homiletical pneumatology, which
draws the art of the sermon out of the ghetto of mere rhetoric and
presents it as it truly is: as theological reflection of the first
order, the church's primary language of faith. Endorsements: ""Tim
Slemmons has written a 'thick, ' passionate study of the fruitful
grounding for preaching. His advocacy pivots on the verdict of
Isaiah that 'my ways are not our ways.' With appeal to Barth and
Kierkegaard (and a glance at Gadamer), he lines out the radical,
defining 'infinite qualitative difference between the divine and
the human, between eternity and temporality' that permits the good
news from 'there' to 'here.' Before he finishes, Slemmons offers
two sermons exemplifying his bold theology in bold practice.
Readers will, as a result of reading, preach differently and/or
listen differently."" --Walter Brueggemann Columbia Theological
Seminary ""Tim Slemmons argues passionately that the most important
issues in preaching are theological. What is the significance for
preaching of Isaiah's claim that God's ways are not our ways or of
the New Testament's claim that Jesus Christ draws all people to
himself but is also a narrow gate? Not just preachers, but all
those concerned about faithful preaching will find much to ponder
in these splendid essays."" --George W. Stroup Columbia Theological
Seminary About the Contributor(s): Timothy Matthew Slemmons is
Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Worship at the University of
Dubuque Theological Seminary. His sermons, essays, and poems have
appeared in various publications.
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