Prædikenens teologi
Det nye Center for Kirkeforskning vil arrangere halvårlige seminarer om emner i tilknytning til den aktuelle forskning. Med efterårets seminar om prædikens teologi vil vi undersøge prædikens vilkår, teologiske egenart og opgave. Idet vi trækker på både engelsk, tysk og dansk forskning i emnet vil vi diskutere, hvorvidt og hvordan individets nye situation, fællesskabets udvikling og ritualernes genvundne styrke forlener prædikenen med nye muligheder - og samtidigt med en mere markant teologisk udfordring end længe antaget? Kan prædikenen i dagens situation forstås som en sakramental handling, som virkeliggør en guddommelig kommunikation, som vi som mennesker trækkes ind i, så opgaven ikke længere blot er at repræsentere og tale om Gud? Kan prædikenen på én gang give skikkelse til Guds levende ord og stemme til menigheden på en måde, så der åbnes op for en fortsat polyfoni snarere end hinanden gensidigt udelukkende monologer?
Program
10,15: Dekan Steffen Kjeldgaard-Pedersen: Indsættelse af Dr. George Pattison, University of Oxford, som adjungeret professor i systematisk teologi ved Københavns Universitet.
10,20: Professor, Dr. George Pattison, University of Oxford og Christ Church, adjungeret professor i systematisk teologi ved Det Teologiske Fakultet: Preaching as Sacrament
11,15: Respons ved professor, dr. theol. Arne Grøn og ph.d.-studerende, cand. theol. Marlene Ringgaard Lorensen og fri debat
12,00: Frokost
13,15: Professor, Dr. Alexander Deeg, Lehrstuhl für Praktische Theologie, Leipzig: Disruption, initation, and staging. The theological challenge of Christian preaching.
14,15: Respons og second opinion ved lektor, dr. theol. Bent Flemming Nielsen og fri debat
15,00: Kaffepause
15,15: Fri debat på dansk/engelsk om Prædikens vilkår, teologiske egenart og opgave i folkekirken i dag, indledt af sognepræst, lærer i homiletik ved Pastoralseminariet, Jan Sievert Asmussen
16,30: Tak for i dag
Professor Dr. George Pattison on Preaching as Sacrament:
A sacrament is defined in the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer as ‘an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace'. In what sense, then, may preaching be said to be a sacrament? Of course, the actual performance of a sermon (sermo: word) is an event involving movement, gesture, and facial expression that are in many cases integral to the overall communicative impact of preaching (see the silhouettes of the early nineteenth century evangelical preacher Charles Simeon below).
Yet the primary medium of preaching is the spoken word, a medium that is not normally regarded as ‘visible'. Nevertheless, one might think of the expression loquere ut videam, ‘speak that I might see you', that Kierkegaard liked to quote. And, in the twentieth century, Heidegger would interpret logos as what makes visible or brings to appearance, drawing what is spoken of from its everyday concealment and revealing the truth of the one who speaks and their relation to the world. But what is involved in speaking such an apophatic word? And, especially, how can a human word make present the divine Word of command and promise? The lecture explores these questions further with the help of (1) Heidegger's reflections on the belonging-together of humanity and Being and the requirement that the one who is to speak truthfully of Being must also be a listener; (2) the threefold meaning of the poetic call; and (3) Jean-Louis Chrétien's writing on the call and the response. The lecture will argue that if the spoken word of the preacher can become a sacramental presencing of the divine Word, it must itself be a word spoken out of the silent attention of the preacher to the God whose Word is at issue in the sermon.
Professor Alexander Deeg on Disruption, initiation, and staging:
Is today's Christian Preaching really perceived as the living word of God ("viva vox evangelii") or as boredom, irrelevance, and the mere repetition of conventional formula well known in and outside the Christian community? 100 years ago Karl Barth and Eduard Thurneysen struggled to find new words for their sermons in order to come closer to what Luther once called the "nova sprach de resurrectione mortuorum". A century later their question will be asked again on the background of new philosophic insights ("disruption"), liturgical observations ("initiation"), and aesthetical/hermeneutical reflections ("staging"/"presence"). A theological description of preaching in the eschatological context of expectation, longing, and astonishment will be suggested.