DESCRIPTION:

This is a four-unit preaching seminar for people with preaching experience in the Spanish speaking world. It focuses on preaching and communication models from outside the Latino community and on tools for preaching in a multi-cultural context.

Preachers from Latino churches need to communicate in cross-cultural and multi-cultural settings. Learning from preaching in other cultural contexts broadens the communications skills of the preacher both within and beyond the Latino community. As course objectives, students will:

1. understand some of the challenges faced in preaching in a cross-cultural or multi-cultural setting;

2. analyze preaching techniques from several cultural settings;

3. evaluate their own preaching experiences in cross-cultural and multi-cultural settings;

4. develop tools for crossing cultural borders in preaching.

The seminar will meet in an intensive format, fours hours a day for two weeks. The focus will be on the presentation of sermons and group feedback. Small blocks of evaluation and instruction will also be included.

Course Reader: Multicultural Preaching.

LaRue, Cleophus. The Heart of Black Preaching. Westminster/John Knox, 2000.

Nieman, James and Thomas Rogers. Preaching to Every Pew: Cross-cultural Strategies. Fortress Press, 2001.

1. Preparation and preaching of four sermons, including self-evaluation of videotape.

2. Reading of all assigned texts and 100 pp. from recommended reading.

3. Analysis of two sermons by non-Latino preachers.

4. Written analysis of four sermons by fellow students.

PR500. Spanish. Permission of the instructor.

Meets M. Div. core requirement in Preaching and Communication (MIN2).

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