Preaching through a Faith Crisis

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Notes

James W. Fowler, Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning (San Francisco: Harper, 1981), 5.

Ibid.

Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith (New York: Harper Collins, 1957), 12.

Ibid., xii.

Ibid.

Ibid., 14.

Fowler, xiii.

Daniel O. Aleshire, FaithCare: Ministering to God's People through the Ages of Life (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1988), 44.

Ibid., 45.

Ibid.

Ibid., 48.

Fowler, 172–82.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Pope John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope (New York: Knopf, 1994), 189.

Ibid.

Henry H. Mitchell, Celebration and Experience in Preaching (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990), 131.

Charles L. Bartow, God's Human Speech: A Practical Theology of Proclamation (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007), 96.

Ibid., 113.

Mitchell, Celebration, 13.

Joseph R. Jeter, Jr., Crisis Preaching: Personal and Public (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998), 21.

Ibid., 22.

H. Beecher Hicks, Jr., Preaching Through a Storm: Confirming the Power of Preaching in the Tempest of Church Conflict (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1987), 32.

Jeter, 37.

Ibid.

Carol M. Norén, In Times of Crisis and Sorrow: A Minister's Manual Resource Guide (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001), 62.

Gerald L. Sittser, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004), 66.

Luke A. Powery, Spirit Speech: Lament and Celebration in Preaching (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2009), 35.

Fred B. Craddock, Preaching (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1985), 23.

Fred B. Craddock. Oral Communication in thesis by Kay Palmer Marsh, “Preaching Through Our Troubles: How Preachers Use Their Sermons to Heal in Times of Intense Personal Challenges” (DMin thesis, Iliff School of Theology, 2010), 1.

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Jocelyn Carita Thornton

Jocelyn Carita Thornton is a church planter and pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church.