Surviving a Dangerous Sermon - Softcover

Thomas, Frank A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501896547 ISBN 13: 9781501896545

Publisher: Abingdon Press, 2020

Synopsis

Preachers increasingly see the need to deliver sermons that are
"dangerous" in a variety of ways: the way they challenge hearers'
comfort levels and challenge established powers and hierarchies. Author Frank Thomas
helps readers understand those dangers—especially the forces of power
and hierarchy that are so intrinsic in our everyday lives and in society
as a whole. He teaches how to anticipate and navigate those forces, to
open opportunities for dangerous preaching, and to mitigate negative
impact on congregants, the preacher, and the preacher-congregation
relationships.

Surviving a Dangerous Sermon is a logical follow-up to Thomas's previous book, How to Preach a Dangerous Sermon.
It equips preachers to say what must be said, in a way that it is
heard, so that the sermon has a chance to do its work on human hearts,
without negative consequences.

About this title

About the Author

Frank A. Thomas, PhD, serves as the Director of the PhD Program in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric and the Nettie Sweeney and Hugh Th. Miller Professor of Homiletics at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana. Thomas is the author of How to Preach a Dangerous Sermon and Introduction to the Practice of African American Preaching, released by Abingdon Press respectively, February, 2018 and November 2016.

Edition details

• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501896547
• ISBN 13: 9781501896545
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162