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Michael Heymel

„Predigen – die schwierigste aller Künste“ Anstöße von Sören Kierkegaard für die heutige Homiletik

Kierkegaard understands sermons from the listener's view as personal conversation. Beginning with this thesis, Kierkegaard's upbuilding discourses, in which he treats his readers as listeners, are examined as models for the art of preaching. In these literary sermons, Kierkegaard anticipates a matter of concern for the new homiletics, which regards the listener as a subject of aesthetic reception who is involved in the sermon. Kierkegaard criticizes an objective and impersonal kind of preaching because it denies that Christian truth is a person. The relationship between doctor and patient is a parable for an upbuilding homiletic, in so far as the preacher has to speak compassionately to the listener as a doctor speaks beside a person's sick-bed.

International Journal of Practical Theology, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 1430-6921
Volume: 10, 07/2006
Pages: 34 - 52

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