Consultations
“Spirituality, Preaching & Bridging Racial Divides:
Exploring Black Contemplative Preaching”
October 15-17, 2023, at Boston University
CONSULTATION SCHEDULE
| Sunday, October 15 at BU College of Arts & Sciences, Room 323B, 685 Commonwealth | |
| Session One 7:30 p.m. Welcome and Reflection 7:35 p.m. “A Particular Oneing: Zilpha Elaw as a Model for a 21st Century Womanist Contemplative Homiletic,” La Ronda Barnes, PhD Student, BU School of Theology (BUSTH) 8:15 p.m. Response by Prof. Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard Divinity School, Followed by Discussion 9:00 p.m. Research Talk: BUSTH Prof. Shively Smith’s Online Research Resources 9:30 p.m. Conclusion |
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Monday, October 16 at BU School of Theology, Room 325, 745 Commonwealth
| Session Two 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Reflection 8:40 a.m. “Contemplative Agitator: Tracing the Contours of Pauli Murray’s Black Contemplative Homiletic,” Prof. Donyelle McCray, Yale Divinity School 9:25 a.m. Response by Prof. Claire Wolfteich, BUSTH, Followed by Discussion 10:10 a.m. Conclusion |
| Session Three 11:30 a.m. Welcome 11:35 a.m. “The Sermon as Essay: James Baldwin as Contemplative Preacher,” Prof. Frank Thomas, Christian Theological Seminary 12:20 p.m. Response by Prof. Quentin Miller, Suffolk University, Followed by Discussion 1:05 p.m. Conclusion
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| Session Four 4:00 p.m. Welcome 4:05 p.m. “Preaching Thurman’s New Testament Spirituality,” Prof. Shively Smith, BUSTH 4.50 p.m. Response by Rev. Dr. Yohan Go, Zion Korean UMC and Asbury UMC in Warwick, RI, Followed by Discussion 5:35 p.m. Conclusion |
Tuesday, October 17 Thurman Center for Common Ground, Room 205, 808 Commonwealth
| Session Five 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Reflection 8:35 a.m. “Spirit, Spoken Word, and the Search for Common Ground: Amanda Gorman as Contemplative Preacher,” Prof. Trey Clark, Fuller Theological Seminary 9:20 a.m. Response by Prof. Donyelle McCray, Yale Divinity School, Followed by Discussion 10:05 a.m. Conclusion |
| Session Six 11:00 a.m. Welcome 11:05 a.m. “’A Holy Joy of a Peculiar Kind’: Jarena Lee’s Call to Preach the Gospel—and Open Our Minds,” Prof. Anna Carter Florence, Columbia Theological Seminary 11:50 a.m. Response by Prof. Shively Smith, BUSTH, Followed by Discussion 12:30 p.m. Conclusion |
Race, Preaching, and Ricoeur, Academy of Homiletics 2022
The Homiletical Theology Project and the Academy of Homiletics are pleased to announce a consultation on Race, Preaching, and Ricoeur at this year’s AoH meeting at Louisville Theological Seminary on December 2, 2022. The consultation is committed to explore how race, preaching, and identity have been inflected by the wide-ranging work of Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) on narrative and the prospect of mutual recognition. Scholars Eunjoo Mary Kim, James Harris, Carolyn Helsel, and Scott Donahue-Martens will join me in writing on the following topic: “Race, Preaching, and Ricoeur.” The colloquium will meet at the 2022 Louisville session of the Academy of Homiletics and will look forward to publishing its work in late 2024.
Jacobsen Kim Harris
Helsel Donahue-Martens
In-class Sermon Feedback and Intercultural Competency, Sponsored by Wabash Center 2019-2020
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Jacobsen McLaughlin-Sheasby Alcántara
Liu Resner Travis
2016 Consultation on Homiletical Theology
The theme of this year’s consultation is “Toward a Homiletical Theology of Promise.”
Ruthanna Hooke
Title: “The Spirit-Breathed Body: Proleptic Presence and Eschatological Promise in Preaching.”
David Schnasa Jacobsen
Title: “Promise, Grace, Justice, and the Event of Preaching”
Kenyatta Gilbert
Title: “A Promising Trivocal Hermeneutic for 21st Century Preaching: Justice, Transformation, and Hope”
Paul Scott Wilson
Title: “The Poetry of Now and Then”
Joy Moore
Title: “Preaching God’s Promise: Negotiating Greed and Generosity in an Economically Unjust Society”
James Kay
Title: “What’s So Promising about God’s Promises?”
Yang Sunggu
Title: “The Promised Land: A Postcolonial Homiletic of Promise in the Asian American Context”
2015 Consultation on Homiletical Theology
The theme of this year’s consultation is “Theologies of the Gospel in Context.”
Yohan Go
Title: “One People, Two Nations, Two Words of God?: The Gospel of Reconciliation and Theological Tasks of Preaching from a Korean Perspective.”
David Schnasa Jacobsen
Title: “Gospel as Promise and Lament: The Unfinished Task of Homiletical Theology in an Age of Disestablishment and Empire.”
Debra Mumford
Title: “The Gospel of Prosperity: Jesus, Capitalism, and Hope.”
André Resner
Title: “Preaching as Apocalypse.”
Joni Sanken
Title: “When Our Words Fail Us: Preaching Gospel to Trauma Survivors.”
Sarah Travis
Title: “Deconstructing Gospel: Locating Trouble and Grace in Postcolonial Preaching.”
2014 Consultation on Homiletical Theology
This year the consultation will be exploring “Homiletical Theology in Action” by looking at the way homileticians do theology when dealing with particular, problematic texts or doctrinal traditions.
Homiletical Theology in Relation to Particular Scripture Texts
Sally Brown
Title: Homiletical Theology as Faithful Improvisation: Preaching Philippians 2:5-11 at the Crossroads of Christology and Context.
Adam Hearlson
Title: Wet Paint: The Canaanite woman, the Giant, and Painted over Proclamation.
Teresa Stricklen
Title: Homiletic Theology in Action: Negotiating Each Sermon’s Texts, Contexts, Doctrine, and Rhetoric
Homiletical Theology in Relation to Particular Problematical Doctrinal Loci: Judgment, Scripture, Pneumatology, Eschatology
Rein Bos
Title: “Surely There is a God Who Judges on Earth”. Divine Retribution in Homiletical Theology and the Practice of Preaching.
O. Wesley Allen
Title: Doing Bible: Editorial Tendencies in the Canon and the Question of Biblical Authority for Preaching
Luke Powery, Duke University
Title: Nobody Knows the Trouble I See: A Spirit(ual) Approach to the Interpretive Task of Homiletical Theology.
David Schnasa Jacobsen
Title: Promise and Lament: Homiletical Theology, the Word Extra Nos and a the Task of a Revisionist Eschatology.
2013 Consultation on Homiletical Theology Participants:
Ron Allen, Christian Theological Seminary
Title: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: on Becoming a Homiletical Theologian.
John McClure, Vanderbilt University
Title: Preaching as Soft Heresy: The Dialogical Dimension of Homiletical Theology
Alyce McKenzie, Southern Methodist University Title: The Company of Sages: Homiletical Theology as a Sapiential Hermeneutic
Michael Pasquarello, Asbury Theological Seminary
Title: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: on Becoming a Homiletical Theologian.
Luke Powery, Duke University
Title: In Our Own Native Language: Toward a Pentecostalization of Homiletical Theology
Teresa Stricklen, Worship and Theology Office, PCUSA
Title: Homiletical Theology is Theological Method for Sermon Preparation
