5/28/2023 0 Comments Breathe by Sloan ParkerProclamation as a divine-human activity is not the preaching act of individual preachers, but a mutual giving and receiving of the manifestations of preaching by the whole church in the Spirit. The Pauline vision of the body of Christ in the Spirit, together with Michael Welker’s doctrine of the Spirit as God’s force field and the public person of Christ, provide the grounding for claiming Christian preaching as communal participation in the Spirit’s working force for proclamation. Yet what is lacking in all this is a balanced account of the role of the divine agency in proclamation. In keeping with a postmodern context, Christian proclamation was also extended to marginalized, silenced, and oppressed others. The preaching method changed from a rhetorical style to one that was more conversational and participatory. Then, to incorporate the communal dimension, homileticians began to emphasise the importance of the faith community as a whole in the preaching event. The New Homiletic movement that began in North America in the 1960s initially focused on individual listeners.
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