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This course is a comprehensive, integrative approach to Christian proclamation, beginning with biblical foundations and ending with the tools needed to communicate effectively in specific settings. Topics range from a theology of revelation to sermon preparation and various kinds of sermon. The course involves the practice of proclamation and so requires that a student currently be in an approved ministry setting. Prerequisite: MDIV-500

In this course, students will explore and experience the narrative sermon form by listening to and preaching sermons built on a narrative structure. Students will understand the differences between narrative sermons and other sermon forms. The course will provide an overview of the historical shift from the Old Homiletic, one which emphasized preaching as proposition, toward the New Homiletic, which held up preaching primarily as story, or narrative.

This course explores the preaching of early British and American Methodism, along with its contributions to the broader Church. Students will develop a theology of preaching, as well as compare/contrast it to a Wesleyan homiletic. Students will discern and apply historic habits and practices for faithful preaching today.

This course aims to provide students with the resources to think theologically and practically about preaching incarnational sermons in context. Students will also engage interdisciplinary conversation partners from neurobiology, sociology, history, and anthropology in their pursuit of empathic preaching. Students will experiment with practices designed to cultivate empathy in them and their preaching.

In this course, students will examine the unique theological, historical, and cultural forces that have shaped traditional black preaching and traditional black preachers. Attention will also be given to the broader expectations that Africana congregations have of the person who occupies the role of preaching pastor in Africana congregations. Prerequisites: PROC-600 or an equivalent

In this course students will design textual and topical sermons built on a variety of linear and narrative forms. Students will learn to evaluate sermons for biblical, theological, and contextual faithfulness. Students will develop and deliver sermons that are biblically substantive and contextually relevant. Prerequisite: BIBL-631

In this course, students will investigate the biblical world of the New Testament, particularly the Gospels. This exploration will focus on preaching the life of Jesus Christ, in a manner that is faithful to the historical context of the bible and fitting for the contemporary context. Students will consider how 1st century Palestinian geography, religion, social customs, architecture, art, archeology, and literature, impact bible interpretation and sermon development.