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Greg Heisler, Spirit-Led Preaching: The Holy Spirit’s Role in Sermon Preparation and Delivery
No full textMaking the Unseen Seen: Pedagogy and Aesthetics in African American Prophetic Preaching
No full textThis essay investigates the idea of African American prophetic preaching as a derivative of the message and agenda of the Hebrew prophet. The essay demonstrates how critical consideration of the relationships between basic criteria of biblical prophetic speech, pedagogy (communal praxis), and cultural aesthetics (artistic beauty and power of Black oral expression), reveals a composite picture of the nature and function of African American prophetic preaching, and makes evident the need for a roadmap to rehabilitate the prophetic voice in America's Black pulpits. The fundamental premise is that African American preaching can become more communally constructive and consequential for our times when the African American preacher reclaims in spoken Word the voice of the prophet that speaks justice, divine intentionality and hope
Cleophus LaRue, More Power in the Pulpit: How America’s Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare their Sermons
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Judging a Book by its Album Cover: A Study of the Relationship Between Musical Preference and Personality
No full textThe purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between musical preference and personality. Despite an overall lack of research on this psychological aspect of music, a wide array of studies have indicated a strong relationship between musical preference and personality, income, criminality, and various other personal characteristics. Upon reviewing this related literature, it is clear that musical preference can be used as a reasonably good predictor of one’s personality. Furthermore, it is also clear that musical preference can often reveal a great deal about an individual’s lifestyle
