The Digital Pulpit: Preaching in the Revolutionary Era of Online Technology and Social Media
Ebook
Overview
The focus of this volume is the practice of preaching as it is developed and performed in today’s revolutionary context of digital technology and social media. In the twentieth century, the Christian pulpit adopted and made good use of digital technology and social media, be it via television, radio, film, cassette, or CD-ROM. Now, the revolutionary nature of digital technology and social media in the twenty-first century demands an entirely new theological assessment, with methodological adoptive concerns in relation to the practice of preaching. In this volume, a group of global homileticians provides their unique insights to the following questions and more. What technologies do we have at our disposal, and what technologies can we use in connection with preaching? If any, do we have a fine homiletical theology of digital technology and social media? What are the best practices of preaching that can be conducted with current digital technology and social media platforms? What merits and harms have we found in those best practices? What new homiletical strategies are emerging in the current technological and social media context? What contributions or connections do we see from existing homiletical theories in the current context of preaching?
In The Digital Pulpit, Sunggu Yang and his team of collaborators give pastors and professors exactly what we need: fresh homiletical ideas for preaching in a digital age. COVID-19 changed everything. We can no longer pretend as if nothing happened. In this wonderful book, homileticians from around the world equip us for our new normal through providing rich theological reflection, practical case studies, engagement with the latest literature on our digital world, and so much more.
——Jared E. Alcántara, professor of preaching, Truett Seminary, Baylor University
A profoundly helpful and inspiring collection representing global perspectives on how preachers might navigate with faithfulness and sacred wonder the new homiletical world of digital proclamation.
——Karoline M. Lewis, chair of biblical preaching, Luther Seminary
The Digital Pulpit is a remarkable collection of essays bearing witness to the complex changes wrought by the impact of digital media on practices of preaching and worship. Sunggu Yang has assembled here a stellar, international group of scholars to reflect on these deeply felt changes, challenges, and gifts for communities even now emerging out of COVID-19. In reading these essays, your own understanding of the digital pulpit will be deepened, strengthened, and transformed.
——David Schnasa Jacobsen, scholar in homiletics and preaching, Boston University
Sunggu Yang not only has a good feeling for what is urgent in the field of homiletics, he also brings together a very diverse group of colleagues from different regions and different ages. Together they offer a fine collection of essays on an equally diverse and timely topic. Worth a read for anyone working on the intersection of digitality and preaching.
——Theo Pleizier, associate professor of practical theology, Protestant Theological University
- Title: The Digital Pulpit: Preaching in the Revolutionary Era of Online Technology and Social Media
- Authors: Sunggu Yang, Jr. O. Wesley Allen
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 206
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666783995, 9781666783971, 1666783978, 9781666783988, 1666783986, 1666783994
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666783995
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-23T00:18:07Z
Sunggu A. Yang is associate professor of Christian ministries at George Fox University in Oregon. He is the author of Digital Homiletics: The Theology and Practice of Online Preaching (2024).