Race, Preaching, and Ricoeur

This book encourages preaching to address our twenty-first-century, multifaceted reality of racialization across a diverse set of communities by means of a deep exploration of theory in dialogue with practices of preaching. The book consists of essays by a diverse group of scholars and sermons by a diverse group of preachers who aim to bridge theories that animate their work and practices that can speak the truth differently to ecclesial communities. Along the way, these scholars reference the work of philosopher Paul Ricoeur who integrates a hermeneutic of texts with a hermeneutic of the self so that preaching can interpret texts and recognize the selves who find themselves graciously empowered to resist racism and its harms for the long haul.

David Schnasa Jacobsen is Professor Emeritus at Boston University School of Theology and Director of the Homiletical Theology Project.

Scott Donahue-Martens is a Clinical Chaplain at Providence Newberg Medical Center, USA.

Eunjoo Mary Kim is the Charles G. Finney Chair, Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Among the many of her publications are Preaching the Presence of God: A Homiletic from an Asian American Perspective, Women Preaching: Theology and Practice through the Ages, Preaching in an Age of Globalization, and Christian Preaching and Worship in Multicultural Contexts. Kim was the president of the Academy of Homiletics in 2018.

Jacob D. Myers is assistant professor of homiletics at Columbia Theological Seminary.