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163 index actual, 89, 102–4, 115, 127, 129–30; see also debt to the actual allegory, 19n6 anselm of canterbury, 37, 47 apologetics, 21, 24 aristotle, 57–58, 92–93 atonement, 7, 9n16 auerbach, erich, 22n12, 25, 107n64 authenticity, 3, 6, 33 Barth, Karl, 10–19, 34n32, 41, 83, 143, 148; theology of the Word, 11–13, 11n24, 12n27, 15n35, 16, 18, 48, 52 Benveniste, Émile, 160n34 Bible, 12, 17, 20–23, 47–48, 50–53, 56, 81–91, 97, 117, 143–45; authority of, 12, 13n29, 20–28, 38, 45, 121–22; and revelation , 82–86, 117, 145; and rhetoric, 5n6, 9, 9n16, 14n32, 15, 31, 38, 48, 50, 81–86, 89–91, 106–15, 144–45 biblical hermeneutics, 18, 19, 21n9, 39, 53, 80, 83, 89–90, 106–7, 111, 112n78, 143 biblical narrative, 7, 18, 19–41, 42, 45–46, 48, 49, 85, 105–17, 122, 134, 138, 143, 145–46 Biblical Theology movement, 26, 26n19 Brueggemann, Walter, 133–38, 147–52 campbell, charles, 18, 40n53, 42–52, 80, 105, 116, 133–38 canon, 7, 22 character, 27–31, 34n32, 45–46, 85, 98–100, 109, 111, 116, 124, 134–38 christendom, 4, 10, 16, 19n6 christology, 7, 31; see also Jesus christ church, 2–3, 7, 9, 11, 12, 15n35, 16, 21, 39, 41, 42, 44, 46–48, 50, 56, 106–10, 123–24, 126–33, 139–41, 143–46 classical rhetoric, 5, 57–61 commission to preach, 3–5, 14n34, 117, 119, 122–23, 146 communal interpretation, 41, 50–51, 123, 130 comstock, gary, 51n5, 109n69, 109n69, 111n75, 114n80 164 index concordance (of a plot), 92, 95–96, 102–3 configuration, 96, 99, 101–2, 105, 124, 131, 140 context (and interpretation), 13, 37, 46–48, 50–52, 71–72, 86, 89, 115–16, 124, 134–35; and preaching, 1–4, 13, 44, 48, 50, 117, 122–23, 129, 132, 135 cooperation (reading as), 76, 78–79, 84, 86n13, 97, 107, 122 craddock, fred B., 1n1, 2, 44n64 cross, 5–10, 12, 14n34, 88n24 crossan, John dominic, 97n48 cultural-linguistic theory of religion, 18, 32, 40, 41, 42n59, 47–48, 50 cultured despisers, 10–11 debt to the actual, 124–28, 132, 146 debt to the possible, 131–32, 146 debt to the real, 87, 90, 128, 132, 144, 146 deconstruction, 41 delivery (of the sermon), 143–44; see also performance demythologization, 20, 26 descriptive methodology, 37, 40–41 discordance (of plot), 92, 95–96, 102–3 discordant concordance, 95–96, 103 discourse, 55–56, 60–78, 80–86, 89–91, 95–96, 105–6, 108, 113, 117–19, 122, 124, 126, 128–30, 144–45; spoken vs. written, 60, 70–78, 106, 122 distentio animi, 92 ecclesial interpretation, 19n6, 20–21, 47–48, 50–51, 106–9, 116, 122–23 “eclipse,” the, 19–20, 22, 23, 25, 32, 38–39, 41, 109 ellingsen, mark, 46n69, 46n70, 47n71 embarrassment of preaching, 5, 10–12 emplotment, 91, 93, 95, 102–3 empty tomb, 36, 37n45 enlightenment, 17, 18, 20, 46n69, 106 epistemology, 5, 21, 28, 32–33, 37–38, 63–68, 84n6, 108 event (of discourse), 60–62, 70–72, 74, 76–77, 89, 118, 122, 129, 143–44 existentialism, 26, 54–55, 79, 87n18, 92, 114 experience, 35, 42–44, 51, 56, 66, 70–72, 80, 82, 89, 91–95, 99, 101–4, 106, 110–11, 112n78, 115, 118, 125–26, 145 experiential expressivism, 42n59, 43, 111, 112n77 extratextual (reality, world), 28n23, 47, 51, 70, 90, 101, 105 false consciousness, 4 feuerbach, ludwig, 3, 3n7 fideism, 41 figurative language, 57–58, 74–75 folly (of the cross), 6, 8–9, 88n24 form (of the sermon), 14, 43–46, 49, 116, 143–44 formation (of the preacher), 122–23 frei, hans, 2n3, 15n35, 17–53, 81, 83, 86n12, 90, 105–17, 123 freud, Sigmund, 3, 3n7 fundamentalism, 20, 26 gadamer, hans-georg, 96, 115 genre, 14, 25, 27, 72–74, 79, 90, 118, 122 gift (of preaching), 122–23 gilkey, langdon, 15n35, 26n19 girard, René, 7 gross, nancy lammers, 49n2, 115n82 henry, carl f. h., 27, 28n22, 47–48, 109n69 hermeneutics: philosophical vs. theological, 56, 83n4, 111–12 hilkert, mary catherine, 49n2, 98n50, 133n17 historical accuracy of the Bible, 20–21, 35–36, 86–90; criticism of the Bible, 20, 21n9, 25, 26, 36, 41, 77; history–likeness (vs. likeliness) of the Bible, 24; Jesus, 26, 34 homiletics, 2–3, 4, 7, 10, 16, 18, 41, 48–52, 56n23, 64, 80, 91, 94, 97, 105...

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