Product Description

"If you ain't got no proposition, you ain't got no sermon neither". This was the battle cry of Isaac Rufus Clark, one of the most influential and colourful professors of homiletics in the black church of the 20th century. Clark taught at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta for 27 years (1962-1989). In "Teaching Preaching", Katie Cannon, one of Clark's myriad preaching proteges, brings Clark face to face with the reader. She allows Clark to speak in his own expressive vernacular, with its double negatives, deliberate redundancy, signifying wordplay, and colloquially coined cussedness, while he lucidly explicates all the elements of sermon preparation and delivery. This book should be a useful resource for ministers who struggle from Sunday to Sunday to find their ethical voice in the preparation of each and every sermon.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3022244 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

Review
"Clark waged a one-person war against all those students and others who took a cavalier, uncaring and sloppy attitude toward their preaching or other forms of communication. His forte was clear, precise, cogent, organised and prophetic utterance. Other than this was and abomination. James S. Costen, former president of Interdenominational Theological Center

About the Author
Katie G. Cannon is Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia. She is author of Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community