Transformational Preaching and Worship

A Strategic Practical Theology for Developing the Christian Imagination

Dr. Katrina J. Olson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2026
T&T Clark (Verlag)
979-8-7651-6392-4 (ISBN)

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This book explores worship’s social developmental impact in shaping the lifeworld of its participants. Using a model called coorienation, the author demonstrates how to evaluate the interaction of roles and symbols within an embodied imagination context. This type of analysis not only exposes limiting or harmful patterns to remove or rework, but it reveals ways to create wide and edifying invitations through preaching and liturgical elements. Going beyond a simple constructive inquiry, this model makes room for the transformational experiences of worshippers and the phenomenological realities of the Holy Other as an active participant. By critically examining worship through this lens, leaders can gain knowledge to craft settings that aim for these profound encounters that deepen relationships with God, with others, and with ourselves. In this way we can embrace the multiplicity of roles and relationships littered throughout our world, uniting in a polyphonic existence that reverberates in concert with God’s own tremendous multifaceted Being.

Katrina J. Olson is Visiting Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology at Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkely, CA.

List of Tables
List of Figures
Introduction: Social Formation in Preaching and Worship
Chapter 1: Creating a Model: Delineating Relational Development through Role-Taking and Coorientation
Chapter 2: Getting at the Root: Exploring Categorization in Coorientation
The Coorientation Model and Categorization
Chapter 3: Coorientation with the Holy: Bridging Social Construction and Phenomenology
Chapter 4: Creating A Second Model: Mapping Transformation in an Embodied Imagination Space
Chapter 5: A Strategic Practical Theology for Reflection and Curation: Application and Outcomes
Chapter 6: Invitational Role-Taking: Leading with a Strategic Practical Theology
Navigating the Fluidity of Roles
Concluding Thoughts: A Hopeful Polyphonic Naming
References

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.4.2026
Zusatzinfo	22 bw illus
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
ISBN-13	979-8-7651-6392-4 / 9798765163924
Zustand	Neuware