Digital Homiletics: The Theology and Practice of Online Preaching
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Digital Homiletics demystifies the art of online preaching, helping readers understand both the why and the how of engaging listeners via digital formats. Sunggu Yang lays a concise and accessible theological foundation and then shares ten methods for effective digital preaching. Readers will encounter concrete tips and advice for sharing God’s word online, whatever the dimensions of their electronic ministry.
Yang profiles each of the ten methods in Digital Homiletics with an eye toward general description, homiletic theory, practical tips, final remarks, and innovative attention to “Details of the Style.” Who is involved? Why might preachers employ this technique? Where should it be practiced, and when? What content is best suited to each method? The answers to these questions will help readers’ tailor their online delivery. Throughout, Yang helps us recognize the distinctive nature of the homiletical task when preaching to an online audience.
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- Demystifies the art of online preaching.
- Helps readers understand both the why and the how of engaging listeners via digital formats.
- Recognizes the distinctive nature of the homiletical task when preaching to an online audience.
When the pandemic hit, preachers were forced online with little time for reflection on what we were doing. Yang now offers us a theological introduction to the “digitalized Word” and explores ten (yes, ten!) different modes of proclamation offered to online viewers. Even after congregations returned to in-person worship, online worship and preaching have become a consistent part of most of our ministries. Yang leads the way with this conversation about best online homiletical practices in a world in which no one size fits all.
--Rev. Dr. O. Wesley Allen Jr., Lois Craddock Perkins Professor of Homiletics, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University
In the rapidly developing field of digitally mediated preaching, scholars tend to take either a theological or an empirical approach. In this book, however, Dr. Yang brings the normative voice of theology and the formal voice of homiletical theory into a dynamic conversation with the lived theology that is embodied in practices. The result is a much-needed, rich, in-depth discussion that considers both theology and the plurality of digital media. A must-read for any scholar or preacher who wants to understand digitally mediated preaching today.
--Rev. Dr. Frida Mannerfelt, author of Co-preaching: The Practice of Preaching in Digital Culture and Spaces
Whether you are a new or a seasoned preacher, a techie or a technophobe, Sunggu Yang's primer on digital preachingis for you. In an era of rapidly changing media and congregational disposition, preachers will find in Digital Homiletics practical expressions of what online preaching is and does--and, more importantly, a theological framework for considering what it might mean.
--Rev. Dr. Aimee Moiso, associate director, Louisville Institute; former managing editor of Homiletic