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Dialogical Preaching, Harold Deye
Dialogical Preaching, Harold Deye
Bachelor of Divinity
Dialogue is the big word in communication today, and it is a principle that those who work in group dynamics have put to good use. It is the purpose of this paper to demonstrate that principles of dialogue--principles which have proven their value in group dynamics--are useful, indeed necessary, in preaching, if real communication is going to take place. Implicit in the concept of dialogical preaching is the understanding that preaching is not a one-way phenomenon--from pulpit to pew--but that the listener has a function and responsibility in the communication that takes place on Sunday morning, both in response to …
An Inquiry Of Dialogical Preaching: Its Purpose, Procedure, And Evaluation, Edward Hummel
An Inquiry Of Dialogical Preaching: Its Purpose, Procedure, And Evaluation, Edward Hummel
Master of Divinity Thesis
The purpose of this paper is to investigate and evaluate dialogical preaching as a possible means for improving the effectiveness of communicating the Gospel of Jesus Christ to man. The process of dialogical preaching shall be examined not with the intention that it should abolish the present monological form of preaching, but rather that it might be considered as a means of supplementing and improving that preaching which attempts to integrate man’s faith in Christ with the happenings of his everyday life.