Studia Homiletica 13: Preaching that Resonates
This volume presents the proceedings of the sixteenth international conference of Societas Homiletica, held from 7 to 11 June 2024 in Groningen, The Netherlands. Nearly seventy preaching scholars gathered to engage with keynotes from Hartmut Rosa, Ezekial Ajibade, and Hye-Ran Kim-Cragg, while diving into homiletics research through forty diverse paper presentations. The act of preaching has to do with different resonances. It resonates with the biblical text, with the human soul, with local contextualities and with global challenges. The contextual and global issues of the day are very diverse. Without choosing between the many challenges and crises that humanity and the planet face, we ask what it means for preaching to be ‘resonating discourse’. A myriad of questions could emerge: what type of resonance does preaching aim for? What is needed for a sermon to be a text that resonates with diverse contexts and what does it mean for the language of preaching? If resonance requires that religious speech be inclusive, what does post-colonialism teach homiletics? Does the liturgical situation matter for the resonance of preaching and do digital formats of preaching generate their own types of resonance?Preaching that resonates opens three different interrelated aspects for our inquiry: mystery, materiality and mutuality.
Theo Pleizier and Ciska Stark, editors
March 2026