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\u00a0<\/span>PREACHING AFTER GOD: Derrida, Caputo, and the Language of Postmodern Homiletics<\/a>.\u00a0<\/b>By Phil Snider.\u00a0 Eugene, OR:\u00a0 Cascade Books, 2012.\u00a0 X + 227 pages.<\/span><\/div>\n

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We who are preachers have been trained, in one way or another, to deliver monologues to congregations who are expected to sit and listen attentively.\u00a0 Apparently this traditional form of religious communication is no longer connecting with the masses.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not just the forms of delivery that are problematic; it is also the content that is being shared.\u00a0 Part of the challenge is the growth of technology and the prominence of the visual over the auditory.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not the only problem facing us.\u00a0 Many simply don\u2019t buy the traditional religious message.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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So, what to do?\u00a0 We could introduce more video presentations and take our communication cues from Letterman and Colbert.\u00a0 After all, if the Top Ten list works for Letterman, why not in the pulpit?\u00a0 But is this enough to keep the attention of a tech savvy audience?\u00a0 But again, it\u2019s not just the medium that is the problem.\u00a0 The message itself \u2013 and the one to whom it points is in question.\u00a0\u00a0 That is, does the preacher have a word from God that connects with the lives of those she or he addresses?<\/span><\/div>\n

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Nietzsche declared God to be dead, and while many in the church pretend that Nietzsche\u2019s pronouncement is irrelevant, for many the traditional understandings of divinity no longer make sense.\u00a0 We, who preach, therefore, are faced with the prospect of speaking of God in ways that take seriously this pronouncement.\u00a0 For many preachers, the dilemma of the challenge placed upon them by modernity has left them with little to share beyond \u201cgrand ethical exhortations that are more anthropological in focus than theological\u201d (p. 3).\u00a0 That is, as Phil Snider points out in\u00a0Preaching After God<\/i>, many progressive Christians are attracted by social justice and compassion, they find it difficult to speak of God\u2019s agency in the world.\u00a0 We\u2019re called as preachers to declare the Word of God, but we find it difficult to speak of God in any real way.\u00a0 As a result our preaching tends toward moralistic platitudes.<\/span><\/div>\n

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