Ringgaard Lorensen / Ph.D. Dialogical Preaching

Bakhtin, Otherness and Homiletics
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-647-62424-2
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band Band 074, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Arbeiten zur Pastoraltheologie, Liturgik und Hymnologie

'Dialogical Preaching - Bakhtin, Otherness and Homiletics' explores the genre of preaching in light of theories of dialogicity and carnivalization developed by Mikhail Bakhtin. The Bakhtinian approach to preaching evokes ways in which historical acts and embodied experiences are transcribed in literary genres. The theories of carnivalization manifest the dynamic, other-oriented, interaction between reflexive texts and embodied acts. Experiences of otherness and difference play a central role in human communication as well as in theological descriptions of the relationship between God and humans. One of the central aims of this book is to explore ways in which 'others', different from the designated preacher, influence contemporary preaching practices and in that sense can be seen as co-authors. As material for this investigation the book provides analyses of four theologians who have contributed significantly to contemporary homiletical developments, namely those of the American homileticians Charles Campbell, John S. McClure, and James H. Harris and the Danish Systematic Theologian, Svend Bjerg.The homiletical analyses lead to the thesis, that the dialogical encounter between author, and addressees, analyzer and analyzed, is one of the conditions of interpretation and communication rather than a disturbance. The communication theoretical and practical theological analyses are discussed in light of Kierkegaard`s, Barth`s and Jüngel's emphasis on the 'qualitative difference' between God and humans. These concluding reflections suggest ways in which inter-human otherness can function as a dynamically conjoining rather than mutually exclusive difference between God as the 'Wholly Other' and 'other-wise' humans.

Marlene Ringgaard Lorensen, Ph.D., is Professor in Practical Theology with special obligations in homiletics at Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. The author has been Visiting Scholar at Duke University Divinity School during the academic year 2012/13 and graduated (Ph.D. degree) in June 2012.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ringgaard Lorensen, Marlene

Ph.D.,

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Homiletik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover
;1
2;Title Page
;4
3;Copyright
;5
4;Acknowledgements;6
5;Table of Contents
;10
6;Body
;14
7;Introduction;14
7.1;Theories of Practice;14
7.2;Dialogicity;15
7.3;Carnivalesque;16
7.4;Double Otherness;17
7.5;Architecture of the Book;18
7.6;The Achilles Heel of Bakhtinian Dialogism;20
8;Chapter 1: Practice-Theoretical Methodology;22
8.1;Homiletical Search for Dialogical Theories of Practice;24
8.2;Theology as the ‘Thinking of Faith’;26
8.3;Practice-Theoretical Interaction between Preaching and the Bakhtinian Oeuvre;28
8.4;Bakhtin as ‘Founder of Modern Pragmatism’;31
8.5;Trans-Linguistic Critique of Linguistics;33
8.6;Dialogical Methodology for Homiletics;37
8.7;Bakhtin’s Third Way between Pragmatism and Theories of Practice;39
8.8;Concluding Remarks;40
9;Chapter 2: Bakhtinian Dialogism;42
9.1;Introduction;42
9.2;Homiletical Request for New Communication Theories;43
9.3;Critique of Communication Theories in a Homiletical Context;46
9.4;Bakhtinian Dialogism;47
9.4.1;A) Bakhtinian Dialogism between Dialogue Philosophies and Speech Act Theories;48
9.4.1.1;MartinBuber;48
9.4.1.2;Søren Kierkegaard;49
9.4.1.3;Speech Act Theories;52
9.4.1.4;Neo-Pragmatic Alternation between ‘Prior’ and ‘Passing Theories’ .;54
9.4.1.5;Linguistic Ability as ‘Feel for the Game’;55
9.4.2;B) Bakhtinian Alternative to the ‘Transfer Model’ of Communication;56
9.4.3;C) 3 Levels of Dialogicity;58
9.4.3.1;1) Language Theoretical Level: Language is Per Definition Dialogical;59
9.4.3.2;The Foreign Word—tjusjoje slovo;60
9.4.3.3;Model of the Foreign Word ;61
9.4.3.4;2) Communication-Theoretical Level: Response can be More or Less Dialogical;62
9.4.3.5;3) Philosophical Level: Dialogue as Truthful Existence;63
9.4.4;D) Heteroglossia, Chronotope, and Polyphony;65
9.4.5;Chronotope;65
9.4.6;Heteroglossia;66
9.4.7;Polyphony;66
9.5;Concluding Remarks;68
10;Chapter 3: Dialogical Preaching: From ‘New Homiletics’ to ‘Other-wise Homiletics’;69
10.1;Introduction;69
10.2;German Shift of Paradigm toward Interactive Dialogicity;70
10.3;Dialogicity in Swedish Homiletical Contexts;72
10.4;Recent Danish Homiletics between Orality and Literacy;74
10.5;The ‘Dialogical Principle’ in Fred Craddock’s Homiletics;76
10.6;Craddock’s ‘Inductive Method’ in Light of Kierkegaard’s ‘Indirect Message’;79
10.7;Listener-Oriented Preaching in Light of Kierkegaard’s Reflections on ‘The Upbuilding’;82
10.8;Craddock’s ‘Dialogical Principle’ in Light of Bakhtin;83
10.9;Buttrick’s Conversational Homiletics;86
10.10;Other-wise Critique of the New Homiletics;88
10.11;Who are the Others in ‘Other-wise’ Homiletics?;91
10.12;Listener-Oriented Preaching in Light of Bakhtinian Dialogism;93
10.13;Concluding Remarks;94
11;Chapter 4: Preaching as a Carnivalesque Genre;96
11.1;Introduction;96
11.2;The Problem of the Mixed Genre of Preaching;97
11.3;Bakhtinian Carnivalization;100
11.4;Preaching as a Carnivalesque Genre;100
11.5;Generic Characteristics of Carnivalization;102
11.6;Carnivalization between Bodies and Texts;104
11.7;Carnivalesque Bodies in Preaching;107
11.8;Kierkegaardian Carnivalization;108
11.9;God as the Superaddressee;109
11.10;TheWordwitha Loophole;111
11.11;Carnivalesque Texts Considered as Action;112
11.12;Practice-Theoretical Analyses of Contemporary Preaching;114
11.13;Concluding Remarks;116
12;Chapter 5: Novelist Approach to Carnivalesque Preaching;117
12.1;Carnival or Masquerade? ;119
12.2;Novelistic Heir of Proclamatory Genres;120
12.3;Implicit versus Explicit Listeners;122
12.4;Homiletic Experience with the Experience;123
12.5;Free andBound;124
13;Chapter 6: Heteroglot Approach to Dialogical Preaching;127
13.1;‘The Sermon is not a Sermon until it is Spoken’;127
13.2;‘Homiletical Musicality’;129
13.3;‘Participant Proclamation’ as Co-Authorship;130
13.4;Excursus: Listeners as Authors in Danish contexts;131
13.5;Seeing Oneself through the Eyes of Another : the Asymmetrical Otherness;133
13.6;Other-wise Surplus of Outsideness;136
14;Chapter 7: Other-wise Polyphonic Preaching;139
14.1;Homiletical Paradigms in Light of Philosophical Frameworks;140
14.2;Pragmatic Approach to Communication and Philosophy;140
14.3;Other-wise Communication Model for Preaching;142
14.4;Bakhtinian and ‘Other-wise’ Co-Authorship;143
14.5;The Preacher as Guest and Host for a Polyphony of Voices;144
14.6;Contemporary Other-wise Preaching as the Word from God;145
14.7;Comparison of the Homiletics of Campbell and McClure;147
14.8;Textualized Experiences versus Experientalized Texts;149
14.9;Three-Fold Foolishness of Homiletics;150
15;Chapter 8: Chronotopic, Carnivalesque Preaching;152
15.1;The Confounding Word of Holy Fools;152
15.2;The Scandalous Particularity of Street Preaching;154
15.3;The Chronotopic Significance of Street Preaching;156
15.4;Carnivalesque Sermon: ‘An Unsettling Debut’;158
15.5;‘The Gospel, too, is Carnival’;160
15.6;Concluding Remarks;161
16;Chapter 9: The Double Otherness of Dialogical Preaching;162
16.1;Introduction;162
16.2;Dialogical versus Dialectical Differences;162
16.3;The ‘Qualitative Difference’ according to Kierkegaard;164
16.4;Homiletical Implications of the Qualitative Difference— According to Barth;166
16.5;Carnivalesque Dialogue as ‘gestörtes Gespräch’;167
16.6;The Qualitative Difference as a Conjoining Difference?;169
16.7;Otherness and Identity in Light of Jüngel’s Advent Analogy;171
16.8;The Problem of Analogy in the History of Theology;172
16.9;‘Difference in the Midst of an even Greater Similarity’ ;174
16.10;Comparison of Jüngel, Bakhtin and Other-Wise Homiletics;175
16.11;The Potential of the ‘Breaking In’ of the Wholly Other on Contemporary Preaching Practices;176
16.12;Concluding Remarks;179
17;Literature;180
18;Index of names;194
19;Subject index ;198
20;Back Cover
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Über Autor(innen)

Ringgaard Lorensen, Marlene
Marlene Ringgaard Lorensen, Ph.D., is Professor in Practical Theology with special obligations in homiletics at Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. The author has been Visiting Scholar at Duke University Divinity School during the academic year 2012/13 and graduated (Ph.D. degree) in June 2012.