Teaching Preaching: Isaac Rufus Clark and Black Sacred Rhetoric

by Katie Geneva Cannon

"If you ain't got no proposition, you ain't got no sermon neither." This was the battle cry of Isaac Rufus Clark, one of the most influential and colorful professors of homiletics in the black church in the twentieth century. Clark taught at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta for twenty-seven years (1962-1989). In Teaching Preaching, Katie Cannon, one of Clark's myriad preaching protégés, conceives her role as purely "presentational": "to bring Clark face to face with a reading audience, allow him to explain the formal elements of preaching from the inside out."

Teaching Preaching is an invaluable resource for ministers who struggle from Sunday to Sunday to find their ethical voice in the preparation of each and every sermon.

184 pages, Hardcover

First published November 15, 2002

Reviews

[Chuck · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overview of Isaac Rufus Clark's homiletics class. Good insight into preaching that calls for a text to be the center of preaching. Unorthodox in approach, challenging in perspective. Highly recommended by a Doctor of Ministry candidate and certainly worth the time spent reading.