{"product_id":"9780814627594","title":"Written Text Becomes Living Word: The Vision and Practice of Sunday Preaching","description":"\u003cp\u003eEffective, significant preaching requires a Vision and a pondering of the question, How can I do what the Church expects of me?\" The homily offers preachers a chance to live this question. Drawing from official Roman Catholic documents (1963–1995), \u003ci\u003eWritten Text Becomes Living Word \u003c\/i\u003esummarizes this Vision for the homily as having five characteristics: personal, liturgical, inculturating, clarifying, and actualizing. DeLeers integrates and develops homiletic practice into this Vision by a detailed process for effective preparation and preaching. Written from the author's work with preachers, \u003ci\u003eWritten Text Becomes Living Word\u003c\/i\u003e will help re-inspire the homiletic Vision as well as the spiritual life of those preaching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapters are: *Repairing the 'Accidents of History': Roman Catholic Restoration and Embrace of the Sunday Homily, - *The Evolution of the 'Restored' Homily,1963-93, - *A Roman Catholic Contribution to the Vision of Sunday Preaching, - *The Homily as Personal Word: Responsibility, Faith, and Love, - *The Homily as Liturgical Word: The Assembly and Its Sacred Ritual, - *The Homily as Inculturated Word: Correlating Experience and Tradition, - *The Homily as Clarifying Word: One Good Point, Clearly Made, - *The Homily as Actualizing Word: Written Text Becomes Living Word, - *Arriving at the Sunday Message: Three Necessary Encounters with the Word, - *From Message to Homily: Content, Structure, and Delivery, - *Ten Suggestions for Becoming a Better Preacher, - and an Appendix: Roman Catholic Documents on the Homily. Also includes an Index.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Vincent DeLeers, DMin, is an author and consultant in homiletics. He has taught and lectured widely, and among his writings are those in \u003c\/i\u003eThe Bible Today\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eNew Theology Review\u003ci\u003e, and\u003c\/i\u003eThe Theology of Priesthood\u003ci\u003e, al published by Liturgical Press. He maintains a presence on the web at www.betterpreaching.org.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liturgical Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011675504880,"sku":"9780814627594","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814627594_p0.jpg?v=1763748204","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814627594","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}