Course Description: This six-week, online course explores preaching as an act of poetic and prophetic imagination. Participants will consider the poet’s art and craft as a resource, a hermeneutic, and a set of Christian practices for preaching in a postmodern world. During the course, participants will:
- Explore the overlap and commonalities between preaching and poetry, and preachers and poets;
- Deepen your appreciation for poetry and poetic imagination from a variety of cultural contexts, and how these speak into our own contexts and identities as preachers; and
- Sharpen your skills for creative writing and preaching
While this is a primarily asynchronous course, there will be scheduled opportunities for group interaction as part of the course design.
Location: online
Schedule: This course is primarily an asynchronous course; participants will not be required to log on at specific times for the majority of the coursework.
Week 1. Introduction: The Preacher Poet and the Poet Preacher
Week 2. The Community Poet
Week 3. The Creation Poet
Week 4. The Dissident Poet
Week 5. Poets of the Unspeakable
Week 6. Conclusion: Poets of a New Heaven and a New Earth
Program Fee: $175 early registration prior to December 6, 2022; after Dec. 6, the program fee is $190. Discounts available for CTS alums (2022), faculty, staff and students.
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