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How to Give a (Postmodern) Sermon (Myers)

How might we conceive of giving a sermon in a fragmented, postmodern world? By postmodern I only point to this context of fragmentation, to a fragmentation that recognizes itself as such, that is sentient (and I choose my word carefully here) with regard to its as such. Despite the problems associated with such an equivocal word as postmodern, I employ it in this essay because of its prevalence in homiletical and ecclesial discourse. This essay is about no thing, not nothing (who would want to  read about that?). It hovers atop the aporetic abyss, which is no thing, nothing that might be empirically accessed. Aporia means without passage. This essay focuses on the aporia, on the  differences and diversity in our ecclesial contexts: the gaps between the fragments of our postmodern fragmentation, the aporias haunting our discourse (homilia).




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