 Rethinking Celebration: From Rhetoric to Praise in African American PreachingAuthor: Cleophus J. LaRue
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A clarion call for African American preachers to think more deeply about the aims and ends of their preaching, Cleophus LaRue's Rethinking Celebration issues an inducing invitation to stop putting so much emphasis on celebratory endings to sermons and focus more on the substantive content in sermons. LaRue argues that while celebration is one of African American preaching's greatest gifts to the larger church, too many black preachers have become content with the form of celebration—volume, vocabulary, pitch, speed, rhythm, and the like—to the neglect of its essence—the proclamation of the mighty acts of God in the lives of their congregations and communities. In words both prophetic and practical, LaRue suggests ways to improve black preaching that honor both the form and the power of the African American homiletical practice of celebration. Preachers will learn how to use celebration more selectively and as part of a fully formed preaching practice rather than as a means of distracting the congregation from pressing social and theological questions. Rethinking Celebration includes six illustrative sermons from LaRue as well as Paschal Sampson Wilkinson Sr., Brian K. Blount, and Claudette Anderson Copeland.
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