Henry H. Mitchell has completely revised and integrated his popular books The Recovery of Preaching and Black Preaching for seminarians and pastors--both Black and White--who are seeking to add power and vision to their sermons. Mitchell persuasively demonstrates that Black culture and preaching style are vital for the empowerment of Black congregations and have much to offer the preaching method of all preachers. By focusing on the use of storytelling, imagination, and style of preaching rooted in African-American culture, Mitchell spotlights effective techniques for lively preaching.

Black Preaching

Mitchell, Henry H.

Religion & Spirituality

Harper-San Francisco

book in good shape, good for preachers

The Recovery of Preaching

Harpercollins

Describes Black belief systems in America and recounts the cases of individuals who, with the help of spiritual counseling, were able to overcome their problems

Soul Theology: The Heart of American Black Culture

Politics & Social Sciences

Cooper-Lewter, Nicholas C.

Social Sciences

Henry H. Mitchell has completely revised and integrated his popular books The Recovery of Preaching and Black Preaching for seminarians and pastors--both Black and White--who are seeking to add power and vision to their sermons. Mitchell persuasively demonstrates that Black culture and preaching style are vital for the empowerment of Black congregations and have much to offer the preaching method of all preachers. By focusing on the use of storytelling, imagination, and style of preaching rooted in African-American culture, Mitchell spotlights effective techniques for lively preaching.

Black Preaching: The Recovery of a Powerful Art

Christian Books & Bibles

ABINGDON PRESS *

Shows how to use imagination, emotive expression, and celebration to meet the congregation's emotional needs.

Celebration & Experience in Preaching

"What's goin' down? I know you don't expect a seventy-five year old man to talk all that talk. . . " A strong and much needed book addressing black youth today, Preaching for Black Self-Esteem is geared to a generation of black men and women who can--suggests the authors--proudly face issues such as caste systems, one's own physical characteristics, feelings of ambivalence and inferiority, and even 'buppies'--economically upwardly mobile Blacks. A very powerful collection of sermons for a generation of Blacks coming of age after the Civil Rights era.

Preaching for Black Self-Esteem

Self-Help

Self-Esteem

Soul Theology distills the core beliefs that have provided and sustained a healing and balancing force in the black community throughout its history in North American.

History

Cooper-Lewter, Nicholas

World

Henry H. Mitchell’s great contribution to the study of preaching has been his insistence that the homiletical practices of the Black church are gifts to the whole church. Nowhere has he made this point more forcefully than in Celebration and Experience in Preaching. In this classic text he advocates a way of preaching that genuinely engages all aspects of the congregation’s attention, especially the ability to both understand and to feel the sermon’s message. In this revised edition Mitchell builds on this groundbreaking work by examining in greater depth the multiple ways in which we experience the preached word, by defining the different kinds of claim on the behavior of the hearer that biblical texts express, and by exploring various genres of sermon to discover the concrete manifestations of celebration and experience.

Celebration & Experience in Preaching: Revised Edition

Includes a DVD featuring sermons by each contributor of The Renewed Homiletic. The major shift in the study and practice of preaching in the 1970s and 1980s, labeled the New Homiletic, turned toward the hearer. The purpose of preaching focused less on persuasion and more on transformation, less on asserting religious truths and more on offering an experience of the gospel. Instead of viewing language as referential, its creative, evocative nature began to be emphasized. Thus homiletical strategies utilizing induction, celebration, story, narrative structures, and moves replaced a deductive, propositional approach to preaching.
 Now three-and-a-half decades after this shift began, preachers recognize that the homiletical landscape has continued to evolve in ways that influence how preaching ought to be donefor example, the rise of postmodernity, the decline of the mainline church, cultural pluralism, and biblical and theological illiteracy. Those considered to be the pillars of the New HomileticDavid Buttrick, Fred Craddock, Eugene Lowry, Henry Mitchell, and Charles Ricediscuss how to change their homiletical approach for a new day. Each of these distinguished scholars offers a lecture describing how his mind has changed, preaches a sermon reflecting these changes, and participates in a panel discussion with younger respondents.

The Renewed Homiletic

Craddock, Fred B.

BUTTRICK, David

Lowry, Eugene L.

Fortress Press

Black Church Beginnings provides an intimate look at the struggles of African Americans to establish spiritual communities in the harsh world of slavery in the American colonies. Written by one of today's foremost experts on African American religion, this book traces the growth of the black church from its start in the mid-1700s to the end of the nineteenth century. As Henry Mitchell shows, the first African American churches didn't just organize; they labored hard, long, and sacrificially to form a meaningful, independent faith. Mitchell insightfully takes readers inside this process of development. He candidly examines the challenge of finding adequately trained pastors for new local congregations, confrontations resulting from internal class structure in big city churches, and obstacles posed by emerging denominationalism. Original in its subject matter and singular in its analysis, Mitchell's Black Church Beginnings makes a major contribution to the study of American church history.

Black Church Beginnings: The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years

Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source

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Black Preaching

The Recovery of Preaching

Soul Theology: The Heart of American Black Culture

Black Preaching: The Recovery of a Powerful Art

Celebration & Experience in Preaching

Preaching for Black Self-Esteem

Soul Theology: The Heart of American Black Culture

Celebration & Experience in Preaching: Revised Edition

The Renewed Homiletic

Black Church Beginnings: The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years