David Schnasa Jacobsen
Biography
David Schnasa Jacobsen co-wrote Kairos Preaching with Robert Allen Kelly, and edited Homiletical Theology and Homiletical Theology in Action.
Bios generated by automated processes. · Report a problem
Cross and Human Transformation
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Brown's work holds promise for returning the cross to a more central place in contemporary Christian proclamation. For too long the hucksters and charlatans of religion have reduced the scope of the cross to the inner cartography of the soul. Brown's work shows that the cross can be read from a perspective that brings the whole world and our perceptions of it within its orbit.”
Preaching & Worship
“In Decolonizing Preaching, Sarah Travis names out loud the world as it is, and what it is becoming: a postcolonial reality marked by oppression and dazzling difference--held in God's Trinitarian embrace. . . . Travis offers a stunning, imaginative vision of how postcolonial preaching can be otherwise.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“In these pages, Rick Pryce practically swims in the gospel and invites everyone in with his year of devotions. As you take it in day by day, you’ll rediscover how that gospel is grounded on a theology of the cross—because weakness is precisely where God chooses to be revealed. Rick plumbs the depth of that truth. So come on in, the water's fine! Each day, the gospel is brimming with surprises and grace.”
Theology
“This remarkable sermon collection lets us hear Schleiermacher’s theology in his own voice. Sermon translations from German might make you think otherwise, but Nicol, Jorgenson, and Tice’s careful work helps Schleiermacher’s preaching voice come through nonetheless. And in this voice of liberal theology we encounter a way of naming God in Christ that persistently shows Jesus’ death in the context of Jesus’ life and in the midst of a community addressed lovingly and redemptively.”
Preaching & Worship
“This is one of the best new books in preaching I've read in a while. Travis offers what she calls a homiletic ecclesiology, but even that description does not really do her book full justice. She is envisioning a gospel-up transformation of the mainline Protestant church in North America and a new, more porous identity for its life after Christendom. I will be using her book in my courses and in my own preaching, too.”
Preaching & Worship
“Robert Cummings Neville's Nurture in Time and Eternity is a gem. Neville is a theologian of depth with a heart for preaching and it shows throughout this rich sermon collection. He demonstrates what a sermon in the tradition of the University Chapel can be and invites hearers more deeply into faith and engagement without requiring them to check their intellects at the church door.”
Theology
“With her new book Annette Brownlee honors the theological turn of homiletics with a compelling vision: an evangelical, postliberal understanding of preaching as a theological practice. Through six key theological questions, she invites preachers to dwell in the house of Scripture intratextually and thereby discern the gospel of Christ with greater depth and focus for the sake of God's people, the church.”
Preaching & Worship
“Preaching on Social Suffering helps deepen the work of preaching the gospel in times of shared crisis. By detailing the historical nature of suffering in the Korean context, Jeremy Kim helps preachers to see, in a more profound way, the role memory plays in the way social suffering is both understood and addressed contextually in the pulpit. Kim’s book embodies real homiletical-theological depth and a deep, abiding love for suffering hearers.”
Preaching & Worship
“Some preachers fled to the lectionary to escape current events in the years after 9/11, but not theologian Robert Cummings Neville, formerly Dean of Marsh Chapel. Whether it is the trying [presidential] election of 2004, the failures in the wake of military adventurism in Iraq, or the seemingly endless culture wars at home, Neville preaches into being an irenic, liberal pulpit, enmeshed in the Christian Year and at once liturgical and public, both faithful and deeply theological.”
Preaching & Worship
“Dr. Joni Sancken has written a marvelous book that preachers of the gospel need to read. Stumbling Over the Cross considers cross and resurrection as indispensable lenses for preaching practice today. In startling ways, Sancken also takes the cross into interreligious contexts where its particularity becomes a means for respectful and differentiated engagement with 'others.' Preachers will find engaging ways of naming cross and resurrection in a pluralistic age.”
Preaching & Worship
“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.”
Preaching & Worship
“Sarah Travis has written a beautiful book. She invites preachers to join her on the edge: to the threshold of trauma-informed preaching. On the way, Travis takes us to the heart of the gospel and the reality of death and suffering which cannot be glossed over with simplistic narratives that announce healing but pass over wounds and scars in silence. Her concern is pastoral, but more than that, profoundly theological even for those spaces where it still hurts. As I ache for preaching that can do the same, I can't help but think she has rendered for us who preach a costly favor in writing this important book.”
Waiting at the Foot of the Cross
Theology
“Ultimately, McCarroll envisions practices of a hope that waits at the foot of the cross. Hers is a crucial word for the once-mainline-church in a postmodern world.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
See something wrong on this page? Report a problem