Preaching and Pastoral Care

Catalog description

Taught by SFTS. This course is co-taught by Donna Allen and Laurie Garrett-Cobbina and examines the integration of preaching and pastoral care. This course prepares religious leaders to carry out the prophetic, inspirational and healing responsibility presented in sacred rhetoric. By considering the vital role of preaching at times of significant life transitions, suffering, oppression, trauma, defeat, violence, grief and loss, the preaching moment is also constructed as a pastorally informed form act of caring. In this course, preaching is pastoral care, and pastoral care preaches. The worship context becomes the a place to find support when God's people are facing life's small and big crises. Womanist rhetorical criticism will be used to equip students with a systematic process to critically engage and construct the rhetoric of the pastoral care informed sermon. Course meets on the Fridays and Saturdays: 9/13 & 9/14/19, 10/11 & 10/12/19, 11/8 & 11/9/19, and 12/13 & 12/14/19, times TBD at SFTS.