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

Published/Copyright: July 7, 2006
International Journal of Practical Theology
From the journal Volume 10 Issue 1

Abstract

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.

Published Online: 2006-07-07
Published in Print: 2006-07-01

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