Yale University Library Research Guides: Preaching : Prophetic Preaching

Resources for Prophetic Preaching

Just Preaching: Prophetic Voices for Economic Justice by Andre Resner Discusses how to preach on social justice and what is at stake for God, for communities of faith, and for the world in matters of social distress.
Prophetic Preaching: A Pastoral Approach by Leonora Tubbs Tisdale Considers the issue of prophetic witness while providing guidance and encouragement to pastors who want to recommit themselves to the task of prophetic witness.
Speaking the Truth in Love: Prophetic Preaching To A Broken World by J. Philip Wogaman Challenges preachers not to retreat from the world and to reconsider what they leave out of their sermons in the art of prophetic preaching.
Where Have All the Prophets Gone?: Reclaiming Prophetic Preaching in America by Marvin McMickle Attempts to make a biblical argument for the importance and the content of prophetic preaching, and argues that the issue is not preaching from a text taken from the prophetic corpus but preaching on the themes that echoed over and over from the biblical prophets themselves.

Preaching from the Prophets by James Ward Invites preachers to look with imagination at the possibilities of prophetic preaching today.
Preaching from the Minor Prophets by Elizabeth Achtemeier Written to provide clergy with the tools to once again preach from the Book of the Twelve with confidence and relevancy.
The Prophetic Imagination: Preaching An Emancipatory Word (Online) by Walter Brueggemann A classic text in biblical theology, offering a theological and ethical reading of the Hebrew Bible via a vision for the community of God whose words and practices of lament, protest and complain give rise to an alternative social order that opposes the "totalism" of the day.

Christian Prophecy: The Post-Biblical Tradition by Niels Christian Hvidt Argues that prophecy has persisted in Christianity as an inherent and continuous feature in the life of the church.
Imagination Shaped: Old Testament Preaching in the Anglican Tradition by Ellen F. Davis Studies five biblical preachers within the Anglican tradition to illustrate the disciplined imagination and poetic discourse that are hallmarks of the tradition.
Women Preachers and Prophets Through Two Millennia of Christianity by Beverly Mayne Kienzle This anthology, with essays by an international group of scholars from several disciplines, investigates the diverse voices of Christian women who claimed the authority to preach and prophesy.