Special Issue on the Art of Black Preaching

We are pleased to announce that our Director, Andre E. Johnson, and Courtney V Buggs guest-edited a special issue of the Sermon Studies journal, The Art of Black Preaching. For this special issue, they invited essays that addressed the rhetorical nature of Black preaching and Black sermon production. They were interested in scholarship that saw rhetoric as part of the homiletical process, opening additional avenues for sermon preparation and reflection. This was also the journal's first special issue.

Essays:

 
Introduction: Black Preaching and the Black Sermon as a Rhetorical Artifact
Andre E. Johnson

“Jesus is Integrated”: The Black Sermon as Rhetorical Exercise in Radical Worldmaking
Theon E. Hill and Tyran Laws

Black Preaching as a Public Address to Cultural Trauma: The Eulogy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nicole Danielle McDonald

From Decay to Redemption: Exploring the Theological and Rhetorical Dimensions of C.A.W. Clark’s “The Worms Got Him”
Daylan Woodall

A Case for Homiletical Aesthetics: The Adorned Rhetoric of Martin Luther King Jr.
Timothy Y. Rhee

Rhetoric of Freedom: The Black Church and Jamal Bryant’s Sermon “Am I Ever Going to Get Out of This?”
Konysha Wade

“True Disciple”: Minister Louis Farrakhan's Eulogy of Pastor Clay Evans and the Emergence of the Son of Abraham Rhetoric
Eugene L Gibson, Jr.

Womanist Pedagogy and Teaching Preaching: Black Women Preachers as Sources for Pedagogical Reflection
Courtney V Buggs