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With its relentless insistence that there is no reality beyond that which we construct, postmodern thought questions the presuppositions of many disciplines, including homiletics. Offering a lively description of the postmodern worldview and its implications for Christian faith, "Confessing Jesus Christ" by David Lose teaches preachers how to rise to the challenges posed by our postmodern world.

Few if any books on preaching offer such a comprehensive investigation of postmodern thought or yield such a wealth of insights for relevant Christian proclamation. Significantly, Lose sees postmodernism not primarily as an obstacle to the church but as an opportunity for it to stand once again on faith alone rather than on attempts to prove the faith. According to Lose, preaching that seeks to be both faithful to the Christian tradition and responsive to our pluralistic, postmodern context is best understood as the public practice of confessing faith in Jesus Christ. He explores the practical implications of a confessional homiletic for preaching and also provides concrete methods for preparing sermons that meaningfully bridge biblical texts and contemporary congregations..
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Drawing together renowned scholars of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, "Who Do You Say That I Am?" focuses on the identity and ministry of Jesus. This distinctive collection provides an ecumenical forum in which adherents of some of the world's major religions comment on the tradition of Christian engagement with fundamental questions of Christology.

Contributors to this volume write on varied topics, including the Christological creeds and confessions of the early Church, the confessions of the Councils, the many and various titles given to Jesus in the New Testament, the relationship between the biblical confessions and the creedal confessions of the Councils, a theology of the poor, Christology and inter-religious dialogue, and a comparative theology of mutual illumination among Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

While covering diverse themes, the essays in this volume are united by the conviction that the faith of the Church is by its very nature open to development and understanding.

Contributors: John C. Cavadini, Kathryn Johnson, Jaroslav Pelikan, Gerald O'Collins, S.J., Morna Hooker, James Buckley, Elizabeth Dreyer, Jon Sobrino, S.J., Johann Baptist Metz, George Lindbeck, Michael A. Signer, David Burrell, C.S.C., Claude Geffré, O.P., and Lawrence Cunningham..
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