Preachers and students of Preaching need help communicating hope They want their sermons to communicate the promises of scripture, so that people can envision a new World in which their lives will be transformed.
At its core, Beyond the Tyranny of the Text challenges the field of homiletics and all preachers to un-write like Jesus Christ: to get in Front of the text, to understand preparation and Preaching as a creative and transformative enterprise..
With this new process of reading, rereading, un-reading, writing, and un-writing the text, the author offers wisdom and tools for reflection and illumination.
Harris demonstrates his method with sermonic exegesis of the Book of Jonah.
Beyond the Tyranny of the Text develops a five-part method for Preaching that stretches from preparation to proclamation, and demonstrates how this method for interpretational creativity emerges from fidelity to the text.
Harris highlights the Preaching of several 19th and 20th century Black women, including Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, and Mary Evans.
He analyzes philosopher Paul Ricoeur\'s hermeneutics as a helpful guide for modern preachers, and incorporates in his analysis of the lived experience of the Black church.
James Henry Harris introduces interpretation theory and continental philosophy as a resource for preachers to resist and overcome interpretive oppression, and lays out a new theory of scriptural interpretation.
Preachers want to experience a new sense of freedom in their preaching, and to extend liberation based on their reading and interpretation of the scripture.
Preachers and students of Preaching need help communicating hope They want their sermons to communicate the promises of scripture, so that people can envision a new World in which their lives will be transformed
