Cross Talk: Preaching Redemption Here and Now

Cross Talk: Preaching Redemption Here and Now

Sally A. Brown

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published Year: 2008

Contending that preachers have become silent on a major doctrinal theme of the Christian faith–the meaning of the crucifixion and the cross as a theological symbol–Sally A. Brown describes the nature and causes of this phenomenon and provides a strategy for reclaiming “cross talk” in the pulpit. Brown proposes a metaphorical and pastoral model for preaching about the cross. Preachers can reclaim preaching on the cross, she urges, by joining New Testament metaphors to pastoral situations rather than adapting atonement theories for the pulpit. She offers specific examples in sermons designed for particular homiletical occasions.