Dialogical Preaching: Bakhtin, Otherness and Homiletics

Abstract

Experiences of otherness and difference play a central role in human communication as well as in theological descriptions of the relationship between God and humans. Marlene Ringgaard Lorensen explores preaching in light of Bakhtinian theories of dialogicity and carnivalization and suggests ways in which the inter-human otherness of preacher and listeners can function as a conjoining rather than a mutually exclusive difference. This thesis is transferred to the relationship between God, the “Wholly Other”, and “other-wise” humans. The discussion is theologically informed by referring to major theological voices like Kierkegaard, Barth and Jüngel.
Translated title of the contributionDen dialogiske prædiken: Bakhtin, fremmedhed og homiletik
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationGöttingen
PublisherVandenhoeck & Ruprecht
VolumeVolume 74
Number of pages199
ISBN (Print)9783525624241
ISBN (Electronic)9783647624242
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2014
SeriesArbeiten zur Pastoraltheologie, Liturgik und Hymnologie
Volume74
ISSN0570-5517

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