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Organic form theory of Romanticism helps writers, artists, and preachers free themselves from potentially limiting norms and rules of form. Organic Homiletic: Samuel T. Coleridge, Henry G. Davis, and the New Homiletic will inspire preachers to express their individual voices and create their own authentic forms by offering preachers innovative methods to creatively imitate, blend, and mix a wide variety of sermon forms. The book is a motivator for preachers to intuitively discover sermon content in the rhetorical context of a given preaching situation, and to develop that content utilizing organic form in the process of sermon preparation. Organic Homiletic is a must-read for seminarians, experienced preachers, creative writers, and artists - all those who seek to be fresh, authentic, creative, liberated, and organic.

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« 'Organic Homiletic' takes up the idea of the organic metaphor in homiletics first proposed by Henry Davis and reconsiders its potential for a generation of clergy shaped by the concerns of postmodernism and the New Homiletic. Park explores the way in which an organic homiletic works as rhetorical event (as process), that assumes an internalized synthesis of existing forms, that is dialogically open to understanding that occurs in the preaching event, that explores the intersection between homiletic intuition and reason, and finally becomes an intuitive negotiation that helps the preacher figure out what to say. When consistently expressed in a ministry of preaching this kind of organic homiletic can aid preachers in the discovery of an authentic voice in preaching. -- Robert Stephen Reid

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The Author: Richard Hee-Chun Park received his Ph.D. in Homiletics from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. His most recent research has focused on his passion for rhetoric and interdisciplinary work. He has also been an Assistant Professor of Preaching/Rhetoric and Worship at Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary, Seoul, Korea.

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