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Start Date
20-9-2023 2:15 PM
End Date
20-9-2023 3:00 PM
Keywords
2023 theological symposium, lament, hope, congregation, suffering, exile, christians, resurrection, deliverance
Description
The ways the church speaks shape her hope. While the church uses many forms of speaking, she has not often used the biblical language of lament in worship or preaching. Too often her hope is stunted. A rapidly changing context allows space for the recovery of lament in corporate worship and preaching, allowing the church to clarify her hope. Recovering a biblical language of lament would allow the church to aim her hope even more sharply, rather than, as Walter Brueggemann puts it, “…to accept the world’s possibilities as the only chance for the future.” This sectional will explore the biblical and theological themes of lament, provide options for a Lutheran theology of lament and propose a regular practice of lament in worship and preaching. Specific attention will be given to the corporate practice of lament. Through these practices, the church can shape her language and her hope toward “the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.”
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Submission Cost
Free
Lamenting Toward Hope: Peculiar Speech in a Changing World
The ways the church speaks shape her hope. While the church uses many forms of speaking, she has not often used the biblical language of lament in worship or preaching. Too often her hope is stunted. A rapidly changing context allows space for the recovery of lament in corporate worship and preaching, allowing the church to clarify her hope. Recovering a biblical language of lament would allow the church to aim her hope even more sharply, rather than, as Walter Brueggemann puts it, “…to accept the world’s possibilities as the only chance for the future.” This sectional will explore the biblical and theological themes of lament, provide options for a Lutheran theology of lament and propose a regular practice of lament in worship and preaching. Specific attention will be given to the corporate practice of lament. Through these practices, the church can shape her language and her hope toward “the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.”
