Today's article extract is from a handout to a lecture given at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary by Gregg Allison entitled Doctrinal Preaching. It features the following quote.
“Theological reflection in the new century will address the issue of the framework
of experience….What we believe will be of interest to our listeners, regardless of
their location in the swirl of cultural change, is something that has possibilities as
a structure of reference for their experience….We propose that North Americans
are desperate for a framework, a perspective, a worldview, that enables them to
make sense out of their ordinary, daily experience. In our secularized society at
the close of the twentieth century, life suffered dismemberment, the likes of which
may not yet be fully understood….What is lacking is an overarching structure
within which to interpret all of these dismembered pieces of life. Life lacks a
whole picture, a total pattern that knits the threads of experience into whole
fabric….Doctrinal framing occurs when the preacher’s words conjure an image
that might hold the fragments of life together….The preacher will understand
theology to be essentially about a structural reference into which all experience
can be fitted and through which it is interpreted. (Preaching Doctrine, pp. 10-11)
“Theological reflection in the new century will address the issue of the framework
of experience….What we believe will be of interest to our listeners, regardless of
their location in the swirl of cultural change, is something that has possibilities as
a structure of reference for their experience….We propose that North Americans
are desperate for a framework, a perspective, a worldview, that enables them to
make sense out of their ordinary, daily experience. In our secularized society at
the close of the twentieth century, life suffered dismemberment, the likes of which
may not yet be fully understood….What is lacking is an overarching structure
within which to interpret all of these dismembered pieces of life. Life lacks a
whole picture, a total pattern that knits the threads of experience into whole
fabric….Doctrinal framing occurs when the preacher’s words conjure an image
that might hold the fragments of life together….The preacher will understand
theology to be essentially about a structural reference into which all experience
can be fitted and through which it is interpreted. (Preaching Doctrine, pp. 10-11)
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