Sacramental Presence: An Embodied Theology of Preaching

Ruthanna B. Hooke develops a theology of proclamation grounded in the body's experience of preaching, comparing voice production to the fourfold shape of the Eucharist. This comparison yields a description of preaching as an event of self-offering and encounter with the Holy Spirit that is communal and prophetic, moving participants into Christ's dying and rising and into a mode of power known in vulnerability.

Format: Hardback
Length: 238 pages
Publication date: 24 May 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Ruthanna B. Hooke develops a theology of proclamation grounded in the body's experience of preaching, comparing the steps involved in voice production with the fourfold shape of the Eucharist. This comparison yields a description of preaching as an event of self-offering that allows space for the humanity of the preacher and as an encounter with the Holy Spirit that is communal and prophetic. Preaching draws participants into Christ's dying and rising, and hence into a mode of power known in vulnerability. Calling hearers into the eschatological event of the resurrection, preaching inherently moves toward proclamation on political and ethical issues. Hooke uses this theological framework to offer ways of preaching on environmental crisis and on racism. The author calls preachers to embodied engagement with preaching and describes a way for preachers to bear witness to Jesus Christ not only in the content of their proclamation, but in their way of being in the preaching event.

Weight: 540g
Dimension: 238 x 159 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793614513