Synopsis: Although one often hears of the need to preach "the whole
counsel of God," few resources have seriously and specifically
attempted to assist the preacher and planner of worship to do just
that--until now. Year D makes the case for the need and promise of
supplementing the Revised Common Lectionary with a fourth year of
lections and arranges many previously excluded biblical texts in an
orderly, one-year preaching plan. It fills a need widely voiced by
preachers that the lectionary effectively limits and censors the
functional canon of Scripture. Destined to serve as a staple source
of significant revitalization in mainline preaching and worship,
Year D banks on the agency of Word and Spirit to renew the church
as few practical proposals have done in the last twenty years,
lending new focus and impetus for exploring the Bible's forgotten
riches. A timely and urgently needed "return to the sources," Year
D represents a fresh appropriation of neglected and marginalized
texts for preaching, worship, education, and devotion, and thus
constitutes a substantive, scriptural attempt to address what
Walter Brueggemann has called "the current preaching emergency."
Endorsements: "Slemmons, a creative and careful scholar, spent
years researching, drawing up, collegially testing, and critically
assessing Year D, an every fourth-year supplement to the Revised
Common Lectionary that encourages preachers to seek for themselves
and their congregants the 'whole counsel of God.' Well written and
theologically perspicacious, Year D is a superb practical
achievement." --Charles Louis Bartow, Egner Professor Emeritus of
Speech Communication in Ministry, Princeton Theological Seminary
"Slemmons urges preachers to break out of the lectionary and bring
to the pulpit difficult texts the Revised Common Lectionary
studiously muffles--texts of judgment and penitence, Gospel
conflict stories, apocalyptic material, and household codes.
Further, with a disciplined Reformed vision and a pastor's longing
for the church's renewal, Slemmons engages readers in a stimulating
project of rethinking preaching and liturgy as both judgment and
grace." --Sally A. Brown, Elizabeth M. Engle Associate Professor of
Preaching and Worship, Princeton Theological Seminary "One does not
have to agree that 'the primary and most valid objection to the RCL
. . . is] its incompleteness, ' to yet assert that Slemmons's Year
D is a remarkable piece of work . . . Slemmons's work with untapped
psalms is particularly helpful, and his demand that we hear the
prophets is crucial. This document feels like a lifetime
commitment. Year D will stimulate a pastor's work and deepen its
result." --Eugene Lowry, William K. McElvaney Professor Emeritus of
Preaching, Saint Paul School of Theology Author Biography: Timothy
Matthew Slemmons is Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Worship
at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. He is author of
Groans of the Spirit: Homiletical Dialectics in an Age of Confusion
(2010).
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