A Healing Homiletic: Preaching and Disability

by Kathy Black

In A Healing Homiletic: Preaching and Disability, Kathy Black offers a unique and effective approach for preaching about disabilities. By going to the heart of the gospel and drawing on the healing narratives or miracle stories, Black shows how preaching affects the inclusion or exclusion of forty-three million persons with disabilities from our faith communities. A Healing Homiletic provides a new method of preaching about healing, based on Scripture, for understanding the needs of the disability community.

Genres: Disability, Theology, Nonfiction

192 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 1996

Reviews

[Naomi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Props to Kathy Black for sharing her understanding of how to preach the challenging Gospel passages in an inclusive and affirming way for those of us living with chronic illness and disabilities -- and to counter the usual cultural narrative about chronic illness, disability, and faith.

By modeling how to engage the Gospels, Black provides a method for working faithfully and creatively with other stories and texts.

Recommended.

[Dustin Mailman · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m reading this book for a class in seminary. The content is clear, and it’s helping me conceptualize an exegetical framework that thinks outside of the box. Fantastic read.