A Diagnosis of the Challenges of Making Exhortations Faced by Preachers Who Employ Biblical Theology in Sermon Preparation of Old Testament Narrative Texts

Dykes, Jonathan

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A Diagnosis of the Challenges of Making Exhortations Faced by Preachers Who Employ Biblical Theology in Sermon Preparation of Old Testament Narrative Texts

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Dykes, Jonathan. A Diagnosis of the Challenges of Making Exhortations Faced by Preachers Who Employ Biblical Theology In Sermon Preparation of Old Testament Narrative Texts. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/d07876d8-e96e-4519-96ce-13e7ca821aa3.

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D. Jonathan. A Diagnosis of the Challenges of Making Exhortations Faced by Preachers Who Employ Biblical Theology in Sermon Preparation of Old Testament Narrative Texts. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/d07876d8-e96e-4519-96ce-13e7ca821aa3

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Dykes, Jonathan. A Diagnosis of the Challenges of Making Exhortations Faced by Preachers Who Employ Biblical Theology In Sermon Preparation of Old Testament Narrative Texts. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/d07876d8-e96e-4519-96ce-13e7ca821aa3.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate how preachers who employ biblical theology in their sermon preparation of Old Testament narrative texts diagnose the challenge of making exhortations. For preachers in Reformed circles who believe that application in preaching is a fundamental requirement, there is a key challenge: how to bring together biblical-theological method with practical exhortations to hearers in a sermon. In homiletics literature this challenge has been both acknowledged and described. The negative effects of this challenge have also been described. Furthermore, a significant amount of literature exists on how to generate application in sermons. Little literature exists however, that describes the nature of the problem itself and its possible causes. This study used a qualitative design using semi-structured interviews with five preachers from several denominations, varied preaching contexts and extensive experience who were committed to using a biblical-theological method in their sermon preparation and who knew the challenged outlined above as a practical reality. The literature review and constant-comparative analysis of the five interviews focused on narrative and ethics, Old Testament narrative and Christian ethics and the issues and limitations of biblical theological schemas.This study concluded that there are three primary sources of the challenge outlined above: the nature of Old Testament narrative itself as sophisticated literature, the limitations inherent in biblical theological schemas when applied to sophisticated literature, and the subjugation of the text by the preacher. To successfully address this challenge in practice, this study identified several commitments necessary for the preacher to make.

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