Blessed and beautiful : multiethnic churches and the preaching that sustains them / Lisa Washington Lamb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamb, Lisa Washington, author.

Series:

Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute of Preaching Series

Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute of Preaching Series ; Series 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and minorities.

Collective memory.

Memory--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Memory.

Preaching.

Social integration--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Social integration.

Multiculturalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Colleges can do it. Hospitals can do it. Workplaces can do it. Why does the church in the United States still find it so difficult to integrate across racial and ethnic divides? In Blessed and Beautiful Lisa Lamb trains her sights on one often overlooked facet of forging life together: the magnetic power of shared memories. Those common narratives bind ethnic groups together and keep them apart. This book explores the sociological and theological dimensions of social memory and considers the particularly powerful tool preaching could be for shaping individuals who are willing to risk rememberi

Contents:

Race, ethnicity, and culture

The theological basis for the multiethnic church

Models of preaching text and experience: the new homiletic and a homiletic informed by postliberalism

Social memory's role in dividing and uniting

Means of social remembering: place, ritual, and narrative

Theological dimensions of memory

Teach us to remember well: preaching to shape a reconciled people.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781630871987

1630871982