Lecture 2: Dr John S. McClure

Dr John S. McClure leads one of the few doctoral programs in the field of homiletics in USA as the Charles G. Finney Professor of Homiletics at Vanderbilt University School of Divinity in Nashville, Tennessee.

During his tenure at Louisville Seminary, he perfected a model of collaborative preaching, a method which includes laity in sermon brainstorming and development. This methodology is outlined in his book, The Roundtable Pulpit: Where Leadership and Preaching Meet (Abingdon, 1995), which has inspired many preachers and colleagues within the Church to incorporate this process in their own sermon preparations. His other publications include The Four Codes of Preaching: Rhetorical Strategies (Fortress, 1991); Proclamation 5: Aids for Interpreting the Lessons for the Church Year and his most recent Otherwise Preaching: A Postmodern Ethic for Homiletics (Chalice Press, 2001).