Effective Preaching: Bringing People into an Encounter with God
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Effective Preaching: Bringing People into an Encounter with God is a practical collection of essays, featuring leading preachers, homilists and homily instructors. Compiled by Michael E. Connors, CSC, the Director of the John Marten Program in Homiletics and Liturgics at the University of Notre Dame, this imaginative book focuses entirely on the practical side of Catholic preaching. It will provide imaginative, hands-on, tested advice to help homilists develop preaching effectiveness, using techniques that will turn satisfactory preaching into exceptional preaching. This practical resource will be essential for priests, permanent deacons, seminarians in homiletics classes; retreat leaders, RCIA catechists; all who preach.
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- Focuses entirely on the practical side of Catholic preaching
- Features a practical collection of essays, featuring leading preachers, homilists and homily instructors
- Provides imaginative, hands-on, tested advice to help homilists develop preaching effectiveness
- Preaching in the Mother Tongue— Calming and Ordering the Chaos inside Our Listeners - Ronald Rolheiser, OMI
- To What Effect? Qualities of Effective Catholic Preaching - Michael E. Connors, CSC
- Does It Resound? Congregational Exegesis in Conversation with Negotiation Science - Ann M. Garrido
- Emmaus Revisited: The Convergence of the Word Proclaimed and the Eucharist Celebrated - Bishop Sylvester Ryan
- Preaching Hope in a Postmodern World - Joseph J. Juknialis
- The Ladder of Homiletics: Seven Steps to Effective Preaching - Guerric DeBona, OSB
- Making a Scene in the Pulpit! - Alyce M. McKenzie
- Story/Point/Passage: Ten Rules of Thumb for Homilists - John Shea
- Plotting a Path for People to Follow - Richard L. Eslinger
- “Murder Your Darlings”: How to Edit for Effective Preaching - Deborah Wilhelm
- Focus and Function: Kindling the Fire - Edward J. Griswold
- Entertain or Else! The Preacher as Performer in Attending to Augustine’s “Delight” - David J. Shea
- Igniting the Flame of Intentional Listeners - Sharon Schuhmann and Rev. Jeff Nicolas
- The Holy Spirit and Listener Receptivity: Preaching That Soaks in Like Good Butter on Warm Toast - Karla Bellinger
- If You’re Not Real, I’m Not Coming - Peter McCormick, CSC
- If Our Hearts Are on Fire, What Are Our Bodies Doing? - Suzanne Nawrocki
- Fired Up—Burned Out - Richard Stern
- Spirituality: Preaching’s Catalyst - Fred A. Baumer and Patricia Hughes Baumer