Primal preaching: the power of imaginal preaching to deal with the fear of dying

Belinda Ann Windham

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Primal preaching: the power of imaginal preaching to deal with the fear of dying

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Belinda Ann Windham. Primal Preaching: the Power of Imaginal Preaching to Deal with the Fear of Dying. McCormick Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/77b7bf0c-8f56-4518-a0e2-0871c3580d79.

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B. A. Windham. Primal preaching: the power of imaginal preaching to deal with the fear of dying. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/77b7bf0c-8f56-4518-a0e2-0871c3580d79

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Belinda Ann Windham. Primal Preaching: the Power of Imaginal Preaching to Deal with the Fear of Dying. McCormick Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/77b7bf0c-8f56-4518-a0e2-0871c3580d79.

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Belinda Ann Windham

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Abstract

This project investigates and evaluates the power of imaginal preaching--both content and delivery--to confront individual fear of dying, corporate fear of institutional dying, a pastor's fear of a dying ministry, and a pastor's fear of performative dying in the moment of delivery. The project examines the capacity of imaginal preaching to meet at a visceral level the primal fears of a small congregation advanced in years, part of a denomination in membership decline for three decades. Imaginal preaching can free preachers and listeners to appropriate the death-transcending reality of Christ, while offering a preacher a paradigm for a preaching ministry of presence.

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