{"product_id":"0323400701-elseviers_medical_assisting_exam_review","title":"Elsevier's Medical Assisting Exam Review","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eThe Introduction to African American Preaching is an important,\u003cbr\u003egroundbreaking book. This book acknowledges African American preaching\u003cbr\u003eas an academic discipline, and invites all students and preachers into a\u003cbr\u003escholarly, dynamic, and useful exploration of the topic.\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\u003cbr\u003eFrank Thomas opens with a “bus tour” study of African American\u003cbr\u003epreaching. He shows how African American preaching has gradually moved\u003cbr\u003efrom an almost exclusively oral to an oral\/written tradition. Readers\u003cbr\u003ewill gain insight into the history of the study of the African American\u003cbr\u003epreaching tradition, and catch the author’s enthusiasm for it.\u003cbr\u003eNext\u003cbr\u003eThomas traces the relationship between homiletics and rhetoric in\u003cbr\u003eWestern preaching, demonstrating how African American preaching is\u003cbr\u003einherently theological and rhetorical.\u003cbr\u003eHe then explores the\u003cbr\u003equestion, “what is black preaching?” Thomas introduces the reader to\u003cbr\u003emethods of “close reading” and “ideological criticism.” And then\u003cbr\u003edemonstrates how to use these methods, using a sermon by Gardner Calvin\u003cbr\u003eTaylor as his example.\u003cbr\u003eThe next chapter considers the question, “what is excellence in black preaching?”\u003cbr\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003enext chapter seeks to create bridges and dialogue within the field of\u003cbr\u003ehomiletics, and in particular, the Euro-American homiletic tradition.\u003cbr\u003eThe goal of this chapter is to clearly demonstrate connections between\u003cbr\u003ethe African American preaching tradition and the field of homiletics.\u003cbr\u003eThomas\u003cbr\u003enext turns to questions about the relevancy of the church to the\u003cbr\u003eMillennial generation. Specifically, how will the African American\u003cbr\u003echurch remain relevant to this generation, which is so deeply concerned\u003cbr\u003ewith social justice?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMedical Books\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAllied Health Professions\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003ePhysician Assistants\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Saunders","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":45262340882622,"sku":"0323400701-4","price":33.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/71jKgIA_UnS.jpg?v=1754092593","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0323400701-elseviers_medical_assisting_exam_review","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}