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Confessing Jesus Christ: Preaching in A Postmodern World (David J. Lose)
Confessing Jesus Christ: Preaching in A Postmodern World (David J. Lose)
Confessing Jesus Christ: Preaching in A Postmodern World (David J. Lose)
BY
ANTHONY D. CLINKSCALES
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
APRIL 15, 2010
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his use of the term. In sum, confession is proven throughout the New
Testament to be essential to the life of the church, including ecclesiology,
missiology, and eschatology. Confession functions as the essential
Christian tradition, offering a communal identity and pattern for making
sense of the world. Moreover, Lose asserts that confession functions to
describe the practice of articulating that faith (and thereby activating and
even actualizing that tradition) in response both to the proclamation of the
word and the present circumstances and needs of the hearer and world in
such a way that it prompts faith or disbelief in the hearers.
In chapter four, Narrative Identity and Critical Distance in Preaching,
Lose draws from recent homiletical work to make a more concrete proposal
for preaching that simultaneously roots hearers in the tradition and
encourages critical reflection and response that enables them to
appropriate the tradition. Lose surveys two attempts to respond to the
postmodern challenge: firstly, Charles Campbells proposal of a postliberal
homiletic to describe the way in which the biblical narrative grounds
believers in the Christian community and thus supplies a narrative and
communal identity and participation; secondly, Lucy Atkinson Roses
proposal of a postmodern conversational understanding of preaching to
discern the means by which to preserve the critical distance necessary for
hearers to appropriate their identity and faith. Lose proposes that
maintaining both senses of confession permits one to preach in our context
both faithfully and adequately.
In chapter five, Confession and the Biblical Canon, Lose explores the
nature of the Scriptures as a collection of confessions, testimony, claims and
assertions that purport to speak of truth and reality both accurately and
with integrity. Lose deducing from Brueggemanns discussion of Scripture,
suggests that the authority of the Word resides entirely with the human
community that utters, interprets, proclaims, and ultimately verifies its
authenticity. Essentially, the preacher can give voice to the Bibles own
claims and in this way convince the postmodern thinker.
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