Overview

This book explores worship’s social developmental impact in shaping the lifeworld of its participants. Using a model called coorienation, the author demonstrates how to evaluate the interaction of roles and symbols within an embodied imagination context. This type of analysis not only exposes limiting or harmful patterns to remove or rework, but it reveals ways to create wide and edifying invitations through preaching and liturgical elements. Going beyond a simple constructive inquiry, this model makes room for the transformational experiences of worshippers and the phenomenological realities of the Holy Other as an active participant. By critically examining worship through this lens, leaders can gain knowledge to craft settings that aim for these profound encounters that deepen relationships with God, with others, and with ourselves. In this way we can embrace the multiplicity of roles and relationships littered throughout our world, uniting in a polyphonic existence that reverberates in concert with God’s own tremendous multifaceted Being.

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Transformational Preaching and Worship: A Strategic Practical Theology for Developing the Christian Imagination by Katrina Olson is a carefully researched work that will be of interest to homiletical and liturgical scholars who seek to understand more fully how the social sciences inform our understanding of preaching and worship. It honors both the cognitive and kinesthetic quality of worship and how each contributes to the transformation of the whole person, as well as the development of community in a shared social context. An important scholarly contribution to the fields of homiletics and liturgics. * Alyce M. McKenzie, Le Van Professor of Preaching and Worship and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, Perkins School of Theology, SMU and Co-director, The Perkins Center for Preaching Excellence at SMU *

Transformational Preaching and Worship: A Strategic Practical Theology for Developing the Christian Imagination by Katrina Olson is a carefully researched work that will be of interest to homiletical and liturgical scholars who seek to understand more fully how the social sciences inform our understanding of preaching and worship. It honors both the cognitive and kinesthetic quality of worship and how each contributes to the transformation of the whole person, as well as the development of community in a shared social context. An important scholarly contribution to the fields of homiletics and liturgics. * Alyce M. McKenzie, Le Van Professor of Preaching and Worship and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, Perkins School of Theology, SMU and Co-director, The Perkins Center for Preaching Excellence at SMU * Dr. Katrina Olson’s highly reflective and visually articulated invitation to engage sociological, psychological, and phenomenological theories advances an interdisciplinary approach to liturgy, homiletics and practical theology. In Transformational Preaching and Worship, scholars of these fields and ministry leaders are empowered to learn and appreciate the significance of multifaceted “role-taking” and that of “coorientation” for the sake of creating an embodied imaginative space for praising God and proclaiming the Gospel in polyphonic and relational ways. * HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Emmanuel College in the University of Toronto *

Author Information

Katrina J. Olson is Visiting Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology at Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkely, CA.

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