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There is often an unfortunate division between the technical work of biblical scholars and the practical work of preachers who construct sermons each week. These two fields of study, which ought to be mutually informed and supportive, are more often practically divided by divergent methods, interests, and goals. Narrative Reading, Narrative Preaching aims to bridge that divide. Using narrative as an organizing theme, the contributors work through the New Testament offering examples of how interpretation can rightly inform proclamation. Three pairs of chapters feature an exemplary reading by a New Testament scholar followed by a sermon informed by that reading. Introductory and concluding chapters provide guidance for application of the model. Pastors and seminarians will find here a uniquely practical work that will help them with both the reading and preaching of Scripture.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	01 décembre 2003
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EAN13	9781441206541
Langue	English
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© 2003 by Joel B. Green and Michael Pasquarello III
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
List of Contributors
Preface
1. The (Re-)Turn to Narrative Joel B. Green
2. Reading the Gospels and Acts as Narrative Joel B. Green
3. Whose Story? Preaching the Gospels and Acts Michael Pasquarello III
4. Reading the Letters as Narrative James W. Thompson
5. Preaching the Letters as Narrative William H. Willimon
6. Revelation and Resistance: Narrative and Worship in John’s Apocalypse Stanley P. Saunders
7. Apocalypse Now: Preaching Revelation as Narrative Charles L. Campbell
8. Narrative Reading, Narrative Preaching: Inhabiting the Story Michael Pasquarello III
Index
Notes
Contributors
Charles L. Campbell (Ph.D., Duke University) is associate professor of homiletics at Columbia Theological Seminary. He has written Preaching Jesus: New Directions for Homiletics in Hans Frei’s Postliberal Theology; The Word before the Powers: An Ethic of Preaching; and, with Stanley P. Saunders, The Word on the Street: Performing the Scriptures in the Urban Context .
Joel B. Green (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen) is dean of academic affairs and professor of New Testament interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is the coeditor of the Two Horizons Commentary on the New Testament, a general editor of the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels , and the editor or author of more than fifteen other books, including Introducing the New Testament and The Gospel of Luke (New International Commentary on the New Testament).
Michael Pasquarello III (Ph.D., University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) has served as a United Methodist pastor for eighteen years and is now associate professor of practical theology at Asbury Theological Seminary. He has also served as a visiting instructor at Duke University Divinity School.
Stanley P. Saunders (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary) is associate professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. He has written Philippians and Galatians for the Interpretation Bible Studies series and, with Charles L. Campbell, The Word on the Street: Performing the Scriptures in the Urban Context .
James W. Thompson (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is professor of New Testament and associate dean of the Graduate School of Theology at Abilene Christian University. He is the author of several books, including Preaching Like Paul: Homiletical Wisdom for Today; Our Life Together; The Mark of a Christian; Strategy for Survival; The Church in Exile ; and Equipped for Change , as well as commentaries on 2 Corinthians and Hebrews. He is the translator of the Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament .
William H. Willimon (S.T.D., Emory University) is professor of Christian ministry at Duke Divinity School and dean of Duke University Chapel. He is the author of more than fifty books and is on the editorial board of a number of professional journals, including Quarterly Review and Christian Century . He was recently selected by a Baylor University survey as one of the “Twelve Most Effective Preachers in the English-Speaking World.”
Preface
This book offers no apologetic for narrative reading and preaching of the New Testament. Rather, given the widespread and diverse deployments of this term during the past several decades, we hope this volume will extend the conversation by offering examples of narrative performance in biblical interpretation and proclamation.
Our joining of that which has been divided in the modern period, exegesis and homiletics, is intentional. Our hope is that this emphasis on a return to narrative will promote renewed conversation between two mutually informing practices that draw their life from the use of Scripture for the pastoral ministry of the church. We encourage readers, therefore, to approach these chapters from a both/and perspective. It is our intent to encourage seminarians and pastors to see themselves as exegetically informed preachers and homiletically motivated exegetes whose lives are shaped, formed, and guided by indwelling the biblical narrative as it is remembered and enacted by the church.
Our purpose, then, is to provide examples of reading and preaching that will contribute to the overcoming of such established divisions as theory and practice, text and sermon, academy and church, past and present. We hope that this volume will play some small role in assisting seminarians and pastors in theological reflection on the enactment of Christian witness.
Chapter 1 contextualizes the significance of “narrative” and focuses attention on its prospects and fecundity for the church’s faith and life as it is situated within the grand narrative of Scripture, extending from Genesis to Revelation. Such reading and preaching continue the biblical narrative into the faith and witness of the church through practices that are explicitly Christian, theologically ruled, and ecclesially located.
The following six chapters constitute the book’s real substance, as they explore and demonstrate how such dispositions regarding the partnership of biblical studies and homiletics are expressed in practice. These chapters are divided according to the three primary modes of discourse found in the New Testament: narrative, letter, and apocalypse. Scholars are paired and assigned the task of “reading” and “preaching” specific pericopes from these respective genres. In each case, the exegete “reads,” and from this material the homiletician then generates a sample sermon. This arrangement serves to illumine the judgments and practical wisdom embodied in narrative reading and preaching.
The final chapter provides a description of preaching as a Christian practice that is created and justified by the biblical narrative itself. Insisting that preachers are called and created within and for the biblical narrative, the author of which is the Triune God, it discusses the work of Irenaeus and Augustine to display particular habits of faithful pastoral practice.
We are grateful to our colleagues who have partnered with us in contributing to this volume. May its use contribute to an increase of readers and preachers of the New Testament whose practice promotes Christian witness to the glory of God.
Joel B. Green Michael Pasquarello III Asbury Theological Seminary
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The (Re-)Turn to Narrative
Joel B. Green
What makes a sermon “biblical”? This is a notoriously difficult question, and we often find ourselves retreating to the equally evasive response, “I know it when I see it!” Even more burdensome would be attempts to garner some sort of community consensus around the attribute “biblical” when used of the preaching moment. Does it have to do with following the common lectionary? With a sermon that, in the order of worship, comes after the reading of a biblical text? With a sermon whose structure is drawn from the biblical text on which it is said to be based? With one that proceeds clause by clause, verse by verse through a text, preferably peppered with references to Hebrew or Greek? With a sermon that upholds a high christology? With one that embraces the authority of Scripture without wavering? All of these definitions, and many others besides, have been championed.
To the uninitiated, these questions must and often do seem ludicrous. Whatever else they might expect, folks presume of sermons that they will hear from God, and most presume that this has something to do, directly and significantly, with God’s Word, the Old and New Testaments. Indeed, the earliest “commentaries” on biblical texts among Christians took the form of homilies, a reality that speaks of the assumption that, whatever else it is, preaching is biblical interpretation that shapes the performance of Scripture in the life of the church. The immediate relation of text and sermon, long an unquestioned presupposition, can nowadays hardly be assumed, and often is flatly countered by precept or practice, or both. How this came to be, why this is unacceptable, and how it might be remedied is the focus of this chapter, which urges that the way forward is marked by the recovery of “narrative” in biblical studies and homiletics.
The Inescapable Work of (Narrative) Interpretation
In an essay entitled “It’s Not What You Know, but How You Use It,” Yale University’s Robert J. Sternberg observes, “Traditional education, and the intellectual and academic skills it provides, furnishes little protection against evil-doing or, for that matter, plain foolishness.” He hypothesizes that intelligent, well-educated people are particularly susceptible to self-deception at four points. They falsely imagine that the world revolves, or should revolve, around them; that they know all there is to know, so have no need of the counsel of others; that, on the basis of their knowledge, they are all-powerful; and that they are shiel