Arts and Preaching: An Aesthetic Homiletic for the Twenty-First Century - Paperback

by Sunggu A. Yang (Author), John S. McClure (Foreword by)

In our highly sensory and interactive age, how might drawing upon various arts--music, film, architecture, dramatic performance, painting, fashion, and more--expand the aesthetic experience and mode of preaching? This book presents a critical, practical answer to the question. As our society becomes more visually oriented, art-seeking, and body-positive, the practice of preaching is likewise challenged to demonstrate the mind-body, word-visual, and artistic proclamation of the Sacred (after all, isn't the writing of the Bible itself highly art-full and aesthetic?). In this book, Sunggu A. Yang, a seasoned preacher and experienced teacher of preaching, encourages preachers to utilize their unique artistic talents as critical sources of theological and homiletical imagination and as hermeneutical-perspectival tools to aid their rigorous exegetical process of interpreting Scripture, eventually toward artistic-holistic sermon composition and delivery. A sample syllabus, included in the appendix, will greatly assist any preaching instructor who wants to offer a creative course on arts and preaching.

Author Biography

Sunggu A. Yang is Assistant Professor of Christian Ministries at College of Christian Studies and Portland Seminary, George Fox University. He is the author of two books, including King's Speech: Preaching Reconciliation in a World of Violence and Chasm (2019).