Voicing the Vision: Imagination and Prophetic Preaching [Author Inscribed]

Harrisburg, Pa.: Morehouse Pub., 2003. vii, 168 pages; 22 cm About near fine(-) to very good(++), with minor rubbing to edges. No markings withn, aside from author insciption. Paperback. ISBN: 9780819219329, 0819219320

Inscibed and signed by author on title page. Clader is Professor of Homiletics and Dean of Academic Afairs at the Church Divinty School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California. "For more than a decade, popular homiletics professor Linda Clader has been helping her students become attentive to how the Holy Spirit is speaking to them, and eventually through them to the congregation. In "Voicing the Vision" she shares her ideas about what preachers can do to be open and receptive to the Spirit once the exegesis is done. Clader's approach to inspired and prophetic preaching is a holistic one, filled with suggestions about how the preacher's spiritual life and practice affect openness to the Spirit, as well as how various creative exercises can create spaces in which the Spirit can flourish. Her careful analysis of the biblical texts that illuminate how the Spirit works in those texts is supplemented by practical suggestions for noticing how the Spirit also works in the everyday life of preacher and congregation."—Pubisher. Contents: Introduction: An Invitation and a Thank-you Note. Ch. 1. Shifting Ground in the Sacred Space. Ch. 2. Playing at Creation. A Homily: Names. Ch. 3. Inspiration and the Language of the Tradition. Ch. 4. Listening in the Language of the Spirit: Breath. A Homily: Tobu wa Bobu. 5. Listening in the Language of the Spirit: Scent. 6. Listening in the Language of the Spirit: Voices and Visions. A Homily: Traction. Ch. 7. Toward Imaginative Preaching. A Homily: The Final Frontier. Ch. 8. A Gift Loosely Wrapped. A Homily: Junk. Ch. 9. Method Preaching?. A Homily: The Syro-Phoenician Woman. A Homily: Ordination. Ch. 10. A View from Off-Center. A Homily: Matthew. A Homily: Prodigal. A Homily: Intervention. Conclusion: A Gentle Rhetoric for a Prophetic Community. Conclusion: A Homily: The Last Judgment.