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Abstract

The past thirty years have witnessed an explosion in volume of work produced within Homiletics. The sheer variety of topics, questions, themes, orientations, and points of emphasis can make it intimidating for a working preacher to engage in these resources or know where to begin. The options seem too broad; the approaches, issues, and resources so diverse as to become unwieldy. Said differently, those of us within the field of Homiletics are prone to look upon this expansion as a form of “Pentecost” in which the diversity is a gift that can lead one to better preaching. Yet the question remains of how to help working preachers – those who engage in the practice while perhaps not participating in the conversations about the practice to the same degree – orient themselves to this diversity so that they too can experience it as a Pentecost and not a Tower of Babel. This article intends to help with just this issue; offering both a heuristic way of organizing the literature one finds within the field of Homiletics and an annotated bibliography of representative works from which one might launch an exploration.

Author Bio

Mason Lee (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is the Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Theology at Abilene Christian University where he is also the Director of Contextual Education and an Assistant Professor. His research and writing focus on Practical Theology and Homiletics. Mason holds degrees from York College (BA), Abilene Christian University (MDiv), and Boston University (STM). Mason has also served churches in a variety of contexts and roles, both as a minister and member.

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