Preaching and the Theological Imagination
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Preaching and the Theological Imagination

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In an era in which The Episcopal Church and the Church of England have become increasingly alarmed about numerical decline, Christian proclamation has become more important than ever. To fully meet this challenge, Anglicans must reclaim a vocation to preach the good news with both deep theological grounding and imaginative dynamism. Crucial to this process is a sustained engagement with deepening the theological imagination of the whole Christian community, through renewed practices of, and approaches to, preaching, study, and spiritual development.

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https://doi.org/10.3726/978-1-4539-1421-2
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New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2015. 341 pp., num. ill.
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6. Preaching to the Choir: Understanding Worship in an Aural Culture

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John N. Wall

IN HIS detailed description of worship in the Church of England, written not quite two decades after the Elizabethan Settlement of Religion and the adoption of the Book of Common Prayer of 1559, William Harrison gives this account of how parishioners learned their parts in the services of the Book of Common Prayer. The “minister,” Harrison notes:

saieth his service commonly in the body of the church with his face toward the people…by which means the ignorant do not only learn divers of the Psalms and usual prayers by heart, but also such as can read do pray together with him, so that the whole congregation at one instant pour out their petitions unto the living God for the whole estate of His church in most earnest and fervent manner.1

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