Performing the Word: Preaching

Name: Performing the Word: Preaching
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ISBN: 9780687074235

By: Jana Childers

Abingdon Press / 1998 / Paperback

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Title: Performing the Word: Preaching
By: Jana Childers
Format: Paperback
Vendor: Abingdon Press
Publication Date: 1998

Weight: 9 ounces
ISBN: 0687074231
ISBN-13: 9780687074235
Stock No: WW7074231

Publisher's Description

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Whether they like it or not, actors and preachers have a great deal in common. Many churchgoers see the truth in the old saying that links preachers and frustrated actors, though few preachers seem anxious to acknowledge the family resemblance. Performing the Word destigmatizes the performance-based approach to preaching and shows how the experience, skills, and modi operandi of actors and performance artists may be applied to preaching. This volume is ideal for seminary students and preachers who wish to enrich their delivery and creativity skills.

Author Bio

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The Reverend Doctor Jana L. Childers, Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Professor of Homiletics and Speech-Communication at San Francisco Theological Seminary, is a Presbyterian minister who served congregations in Kansas and New Jersey before joining the seminary faculty. She holds a B.A. from Wheaton College, an M.Div degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.