A Sermon Workbook: Exercises in the Art and Craft of Preaching - Softcover

Tisdale, Leonora Tubbs; Troeger, Thomas H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1426757786 ISBN 13: 9781426757785

Publisher: Abingdon Press, 2013

Synopsis

Every preacher, from the novice to the most experienced, needs fresh inspiration to build new skills and to inject creativity into their sermon preparation.

A Sermon Workbook addresses the essentials for effective preaching in our multi-tasking, multi-ethnic, sound-bite society. It offers theological clarity about why we preach, and what matters most. The esteemed teaching team of Tom Troeger and Nora Tisdale invite the reader into their Yale Divinity School classroom, guiding the reader to build skill upon skill, working through inventive and engaging exercises. The workbook format can be used in a linear fashion, beginning to end. Or readers can pick and choose the chapters to tailor-fit their own needs. In either case, this is a remarkable and flexible resource, instantly accessible and useful for anyone tasked with the proclamation of the Word.

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About the Author

Leonora Tubbs Tisdale is the Clement-Muehl Professor of Homiletics at Yale Divinity School.  Her research and teaching interests include: prophetic preaching, women and preaching, and congregational studies and preaching.    She is the author or editor of ten books, including Preaching as Local Theology and Folk Art, Prophetic Preaching: A Pastoral Approach, Teaching Preaching as a Christian Practice, and three volumes of the Abingdon Women’s Preaching Annual.  She also served as one the authors of The History of the Riverside Church in New York City, writing the chapter on that church’s rich prophetic preaching tradition.  

Before beginning her tenure at Yale, Professor Tisdale served on the faculties of Princeton Theological Seminary, Union Presbyterian Seminary in Virginia, and as adjunct faculty at Union Theological Seminary in New York.  She has been a pastor in congregations ranging in size from 33 to several thousand.  While on the pastoral staff of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, she directed a lay seminary that offered courses for over 2000 people in the greater NYC area. 

Professor Tisdale is a former president of the Academy of Homiletics, the professional society for North American teachers of preaching.  She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U. S. A.).   

 

Thomas H. Troeger, Lantz Professor emeritus Yale Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music, has written 24 books in the fields of preaching, poetry, hymnody and worship. His most recent books include: Song that Blesses Earth: Hymn texts, carols, and poems; A Sermon Workbook: Exercises in the Art and Craft of Preaching (with Nora Tubbs Tisdale); Music as Prayer: The Theology and Practice of Church Music.  He is also a flutist and a poet whose work appears in the hymnals of most denominations and is frequently set as choral anthems. Professor Troeger has a B.A. Yale University; B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School.  In 2014 the University of Basel, Switzerland, awarded him an honorary doctorate in theology for his international work in homiletics and his development of “a contemporary religious language which does justice to both aesthetic and theological demands.”  In 2016 he gave the Beecher Lectures at Yale on which his latest book, The End of Preaching, is based.  Ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church and as a minister in the Presbyterian Church, he is now retired and living in Falmouth, Maine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1426757786
• ISBN 13: 9781426757785
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 176