150183259X

9781501832598

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: The Question(s) in the Room; Introduction: #PerceivedOutsider; Personhood and Pulpit Personas; Faux Pioneering in the Ministries of Black Women; Resetting the Rules of Engagement; Chapter 1: When Bodies and Unimaginative Practice Collide; Black. Woman. Preacher.; The Limits and Dangers of Unimaginative Practice; The Collision of Unimaginative Practice with Real Bodies; An Act of Constrained Invention; Chapter 2: Ingenuity for the Sake of Proclamation; Preaching as a Communally Defined Practice

Proclamation as a Marking ExperienceThe Black Preacher as a Ghostly Image; A Practice That Opens and Generatively Disrupts; Imitating, Mimicking, and Preaching; Communal Choreography and Sacred Vibrations; Chapter 3: Mining Life for Preaching; Connections and Bridges to Life; (Re)Imaginings of the Familiar; Ingenuity and Everyday Life; (Re)Imagining Sermon Development; Using the Familiar as a Resource; Chapter 4: Recovering Sacred Texts for Preaching; Interplay and Play; (Re)Imaginings of Texts; Ingenuity and Interpreting Scripture; (Re)Imagining Sermon Development

Creative Intelligence and InterpretationChapter 5: Finding "A Word from the Lord" for Today; Very Present Truth; (Re)Imaginings for Here and Now; Ingenuity and Truth Telling; (Re)Imagining Sermon Development; Immediacy Textured; Chapter 6: Locating God and Faith on the Ground; A Very Present Help; (Re)Imaginings of the Ordinarily Sacred; Ingenuity and the Story of Faith; (Re)Imagining Sermon Development; Sacred Storytelling; Conclusion: Risk-Taking for the Sake of Life; Leaving Space for Possibilities; Cultivating Risk-Taking for Ingenuity; Preach, Regardless.; Notes

Preaching > History.

Women in Christianity > History.

Sermons, American > Women authors.

Women, Black > Religion.

Sermons, American > Women authors.

Women, Black > Religion.