When listeners create meaning, how then does one preach?

Glenn Luther Monson

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When listeners create meaning, how then does one preach?

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Glenn Luther Monson. When Listeners Create Meaning, How Then Does One Preach?. Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/a40647c3-a1f6-45a9-bbd5-051c395f8fc0.

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G. L. Monson. When listeners create meaning, how then does one preach?. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/a40647c3-a1f6-45a9-bbd5-051c395f8fc0

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Glenn Luther Monson. When Listeners Create Meaning, How Then Does One Preach?. Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/a40647c3-a1f6-45a9-bbd5-051c395f8fc0.

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Glenn Luther Monson

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The purpose of this thesis is to suggest helpful criteria for preachers who view their listeners as co-creators of meaning during the sermon event. The underlying conviction of this thesis--that listeners are always co-creators of meaning along with the preacher in any sermon event--is based upon data collected during a three-year preaching project, and upon the work of a number of contemporary homileticians. The main thesis builds on the work of Fred Craddock who viewed the purpose of the sermon as 'getting something heard.' Going a step beyond Craddock's work, this thesis suggests that 'getting something created' is a helpful way of defining the purpose of preaching when listeners in the consciousness of homileticians is a central part of this thesis, which then leads to the conclusions of this thesis, that humility, imagination, and a 'catalytic consciousness' are essential qualities of preaching in the postmodern period.

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