Graduate Certificates
Prophetic Preaching: Speaking Truth to Power
MDV Theology
Prophetic Preaching: Speaking Truth to Power
This certificate offers the tools needed to impact and inspire congregations to become places of praxis through effective preaching. Prepares individuals to deliver sermons that speak truth to power, address social justice issues, and inspire transformation within faith communities.
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COURSES
PT1 735 Preaching as Social Transformation (3)
Designed to build upon previous experience gained in sermon preparation and delivery, and therefore points toward the presentation of the student's senior sermon. The student prepares and leads a complete worship service, demonstrating the benefits gained from exposure to various academic disciplines. Sermon delivery and worship leadership are subject to final faculty review and evaluation.
PT1 634 PREACHING AND WORSHIP II (3cr)
Designed to expand on the areas covered in the introductory preaching and worship course. It focuses on textual preaching as a homiletical paradigm and applies the Hegelian dialectic to promote textual analysis. The course also aims to introduce students to the hermeneutics of liberation as a tool for preaching and worship. (Also taught as Black Preaching)
PT 615 Womanist Preaching (3cr)
Designed to introduce students to Womanist Theology as a theoretical framework for “unmasking, disentangling, and debunking” systems of oppression and as a theoretical resource for constructing paradigms for social justice.
Designed to build upon previous experience gained in sermon preparation and delivery, and therefore points toward the presentation of the student's senior sermon. The student prepares and leads a complete worship service, demonstrating the benefits gained from exposure to various academic disciplines. Sermon delivery and worship leadership are subject to final faculty review and evaluation.
PT1 634 PREACHING AND WORSHIP II (3cr)
Designed to expand on the areas covered in the introductory preaching and worship course. It focuses on textual preaching as a homiletical paradigm and applies the Hegelian dialectic to promote textual analysis. The course also aims to introduce students to the hermeneutics of liberation as a tool for preaching and worship. (Also taught as Black Preaching)
PT 615 Womanist Preaching (3cr)
Designed to introduce students to Womanist Theology as a theoretical framework for “unmasking, disentangling, and debunking” systems of oppression and as a theoretical resource for constructing paradigms for social justice.