DESCRIPTION:

This 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. The practicum seeks the following goals for each student:

Cognitive: Understanding of the challenges faced in preaching in a cross-cultural or multi-cultural setting.

Affective: Developing an appreciation for preaching techniques from several cultural settings.

Skills: Communication tools for crossing cultural borders in preaching and for evaluating their own preaching experiences in cross-cultural and multi-cultural settings.

The seminar will meet in a five-week intensive format, for four-hour sessions twice weekly. 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 & 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 five sermons by fellow students.

PR500. Spanish.

Meets MDiv core requirement in Preaching and Communication (MIN2).

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