In my research, I argue that members of these faiths are also-despite prevailing assumptions about Judaism, and especially Islam-people of the image. Picturing Abraham in Judaism, Christianity, and IslamĬalls for interfaith dialogue usually begin with the claim that what binds together Jews, Christians, and Muslims is their common identity as people of the book. I will compare the results of these academic approaches with the more subjective, intuitive approaches suggested by Florence and other preachers/homileticians. The narrative of the woman anointing Jesus' feet appears in the synoptic gospels as well as John, so the text lends itself well to redaction criticism and narrative criticism. Can scholars reflect on this process of vulnerability to a text, this intuitive response? I propose to use John 12:1-8 as a test case. She suggests several methods for eliciting subjective reactions to a text. In a lecture at SBL, Florence talks of allowing the text to kill the preacher and raise him/her back up. Although scholars strive in evaluating texts for criteria that can be discussed with at least a measure of objectivity, preachers, even with strong academic credentials, write of evaluating texts with more intuitive, subjective approaches. ![]() I propose a paper exploring the relationship between the scholarly approaches developed within academic biblical studies and the more subjective methods suggested by several preachers and homileticians, as exemplified by Anna Carter Florence’s book, Preaching as Testimony. Program Unit: Homiletics and Biblical StudiesĬharles Aaron, Whaley United Methodist Church Scholars and Soccer Moms: Some Reflections on Objectivity and Subjectivity in Moving From Text to Sermon
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