Preaching the Beatitudes in Context
Session Description
This panel discussion from the 2022 Worship Symposium features three experienced preachers—Gennifer Brooks, Karen Campbell, and Ruth Padilla DeBorst—sharing their perspectives on the contextual challenges and complexities of teaching the Beatitudes. The participants emphasize the need to avoid spiritualizing the text, urging instead for a grounded approach that connects Jesus's counter-cultural message of blessing with the lived realities of injustice, suffering, and transformation in modern communities
Conference Title
2022 Calvin Symposium on Worship
Event Date
1-31-2022
Event Type
Panel/Conversation
Type (recording/text)
Recording
Subject Area
Homiletics
Topic
Preaching
Keywords:
Matthew 5, Beatitudes, preaching
Upload Date
31-1-2022 12:00 AM
Recommended Citation
Calvin Institute of Christian Worship; Brooks, Gennifer Benjamin; Campbell, Karen; Cornou, María Eugenia; and DeBorst, Ruth Padilla, "Preaching the Beatitudes in Context" (2022). Symposium on Worship Archive. 10.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/uni-cicw-symposium/2022/sessions/10
Preaching the Beatitudes in Context
This panel discussion from the 2022 Worship Symposium features three experienced preachers—Gennifer Brooks, Karen Campbell, and Ruth Padilla DeBorst—sharing their perspectives on the contextual challenges and complexities of teaching the Beatitudes. The participants emphasize the need to avoid spiritualizing the text, urging instead for a grounded approach that connects Jesus's counter-cultural message of blessing with the lived realities of injustice, suffering, and transformation in modern communities