Sermon Text Research Articles

Implementasi E-Assessment dalam Pembelajaran Teks Ceramah Berbasis Culturally Responsive Teaching di Pondok Pesantren Modern Islam Assalaam

The urgency of implementing Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) and E-Assessment in sermon text learning lies in the need to enhance the relevance of teaching materials to the cultural and religious backgrounds of students while providing more objective and efficient assessments. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of combining CRT and E-Assessment in improving students' competencies at Pondok Pesantren Modern Islam Assalaam, particularly in sermon text learning. The study employed a qualitative approach with an embedded case study design. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, participatory observations, documentation, and audio-video recordings. Thematic analysis was conducted to identify patterns in teaching and technology-based assessment practices. The results show that CRT enhances the relevance of learning materials to students’ cultural contexts, boosting confidence, participation, and intercultural understanding. Meanwhile, E-Assessment provides a more objective and efficient tool for evaluating sermon texts, particularly in terms of structure, coherence, and language use. However, the study also highlights challenges, such as limitations in assessing the performative aspects of speaking skills and the need for more inclusive material development. The study concludes that the combination of CRT and E-Assessment is effective in supporting students' competency development, although further innovations are needed in technology integration and teacher-student training.

SYNTACTIC MEANS OF LANGUAGE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FUNCTION OF INFLUENCING THE ADDRESSEE

Persuasion is of great importance in the implementation of linguistic influence; using linguistic means of different levels, the addresser seeks to change the addressee’s mental state, forces them to agree with the speaker’s opinion and change life attitudes, principles, views, and way of behaving. Among the variety of means of influence, the syntactic resources of the Ukrainian language play an important role.
 The article analyzes the peculiarities of the syntactic means in the implementation of the function of influencing the addressee based on the material of preaching works.
 The article marks interrogative sentences performing the function of influence. At the beginning of the sermon, they performed the role of an introduction, set the listeners to perceive the content, the preacher engaged the listeners in direct interaction with him with the help of questions.
 Syntactic structures with the meaning of motivation were the means of linguistic realization of will expression. Priests gave admonitions mostly by predicates, expressed by verbs of the imperative mood in the plural form. The plural form was at the same time a linguistic means of implementation the tactics of solidarity with the addressee.
 With the help of syntactic structures with a compound nominal predicate, the tactics of explanation were implemented. Usually in this case statements were framed as definitions; with their help the essence of theological and other important concepts discussed in the sermon was explained.
 An obligatory component of the sermon text was the wish to the believers; they were usually expressed in the final part of the speech. Wishes using forms of the imperative mood with the particles "khai", "nekhai" (let) expressed a high degree of confidence in its implementation, and repetitions and amplifications brought them closer to suggestive types of linguistic influence. A structural element determining the sermon was a prayer appeal to the higher forces with a request to preserve, protect and turn away from all evil. Appealing to the higher forces with the help of requests helped to create the effect of their constant presence among believers, which, accordingly, strengthened their faith.
 Syntactic resources of the language were used to give expressiveness to the speech; anaphora and other types of repetition most productively realized this goal.
 Results of the analysis proved that the syntactic resources of the language were a powerful tool for influencing the addressee and implementing the speaker’s intentions.

Biblisch-theologische Narrative einer Geschichte des Politischen

The speech goes over the sermon text episode of David serving by playing music on a pluck instrument in the king’s court. In view of the overall biblical narrative of the rise and end of King Saul, from which the story originates, the question of the logics of (political) history in general arises. The later episode of Saul’s spearthrowing against themusician is interpreted through a painting of the artist Ben Zion (1897–1987) about this, itself inspired by a poem by Dan Pagis (1930–1986) on the same scene: how political and military power, when it wants to remain forever, becomes recognizable by the fact that it knows itself to be ultimately threatened bymusic and poetry and beauty and virtue and reason.

İbnü'l-Cevzî’nin el-Müdhiş Adlı Eseri Özelinde Vaaz Metinlerinde Âyetten İktibas Estetiği

Vaazın ilke ve esaslarını belirleyen klasik kaynaklara bakıldığında müelliflerin iyi bir vaiz olmak için gerekli gördükleri ilk şart Kur’ân’a hâkimiyettir. Onlara göre vaaz kürsüsünde inanç, ibadet ve ahlaka dair konuşma yapacak bir vaiz, konusuyla ilgili birinci kaynak olarak âyetlere yer vermelidir. Bağlama en uygun düşecek âyetler ihmal edilmemeli, hangi konuda hangi âyetin zikredilmesi gerektiğini vaiz göz önünde bulundurmalıdır. Bundan dolayı tedvin edilen en eski vaaz kaynaklarına bakıldığında sıklıkla âyetlere atıfta bulunulduğu görülür. Bu hassasiyet gayet anlaşılır bir tutumdur. Zira vaiz, toplumda yerleştirilmesi yahut perçinleştirilmesi gereken inanç ve değerlere tevcih ederken vicdanda hazır bulunan iman potansiyelinden istifade etmek ister. Bu potansiyeli tahrik edecek en müessir saik Allah kelamı olan âyetlerdir. Vaizin, vaaz metnini hazırlarken konuyla ilgili âyetlere atıfta bulunması hususu belirli bir düzeyde yetkinlik gerektirmektedir. Zira kimi zaman konu çerçevesinde beklenmedik âyetlerle kurulan bağlantılar, hedef kitlenin dikkatini çekmekte ve konuya odaklanmasına vesile olmaktadır. Vaizin çoğu zaman hep aynı konularda aynı âyetlere atıfta bulunması dinleyici kitlede bıkkınlık ve dolayısıyla da tesirsizliğe neden olabilir. Bu yüzden vaaz metni oluşturulmadan önce vaiz çarpıcı, ilgi çekici ve teşvik edici âyet münasebetleri üzerine zihni bir ceht sarf etmelidir. Bu hususta başarılı olduğunu gördüğümüz vaizlerden birisi İbnü'l-Cevzî’dir (ö. 597/1201). Yaşadığı dönemde vaazları coşkuyla dinlenen ve başarısının farkında olan İbnü'l-Cevzî, vaaz tecrübelerini kürsüden kitaba taşımış ve gelecek kuşaklara vaaz hususunda örnekler sunmuştur. Bu çalışmada müellifin söz konusu örnekleri cem ettiği eseri olan el-Müdhiş, âyetleri referans verme bakımından incelenmiştir. Müellifin mezkûr konu çerçevesinde başarılı ve eksik görüldüğü tarafları değerlendirilmiştir.

خطبة طارق بن زياد قبل فتح الأندلس (دراسة تحليلية التأويلية)

This study discusses the meaning and interpretation in the text of Tariq bin Ziyad's sermon before the conquest of Andalusia with the interpretation or hermeneutic analysis method. The purpose of this study is to uncover the explicit and implicit meanings of Tariq bin Ziyad's sermon text before the conquest of Andalusia. This research uses the type of library research, because most of the data and sources of this research come from books and documents. The researcher uses the document study method in his research as a data collection method. As for verifying the validity of the data, the researchers used triangulation techniques. Using descriptive analysis in analyzing the data after analyzing the interpretation in the text of Tariq bin Ziyad's sermon before the conquest of Andalusia. We know that this sermon contains motivation, advice and wisdom.

『개역개정』 성경 개정을 위한 문체 논의

The reason for revising the Bible is to provide a more accurate and clear translation of the Bible and a Bible that better communicates the meaning to readers of existing Bible translations. Considering this as a premise, the stylistic issues in the revision of the Bible can be summarized as follows:<BR> 1) It is natural to apply the latest Korean orthography to the text.<BR> 2) The style including the sentence ending form should be maintained as it is. This is the same for poetry and prose. If you change the style to the ‘-da’ ending form, there will be strong opposition or you will have to just ignore it.<BR> 3) On the stylistic level, the existing translation should be maintained unless the existing translation is wrong.<BR> 4) Borrowed Chinese words are now part of our language. However, it is difficult for words that do not communicate when written only in Korean to become Korean words. You have to find their alternatives.<BR> 5) With the passage of time, the use of traditional words decreases, and new words can be used more widely. When translating a new Bible, it is desirable to choose a word that is currently used more widely. But when revising an existing Bible, it is necessary to keep the existing terminology for existing Bible readers as long as there is no major problem in communication.<BR> 6) Although translation of human and place names is not meaningful in itself, it is sometimes a factor that makes the Bible difficult. Whether it’s a person with two names or two or three different persons with the same name, it is necessary to find alternatives when it can cause confusion.<BR> 7) When revising a translation of traditional style, attempts to shorten the length of a sentence can be made in very limited cases when it is absolutely necessary. Considering the use of the Bible, it is necessary to examine whether it is possible to break sentences in verse units.<BR> 8) Even if the traditional style is maintained, editing the psalms to have line breaks can help the reading experience of the reader.<BR> 9) Use of punctuation in the Bible text would be a good consideration for Bible readers. Considering that most churches still use the New Korean Revised Version for worship, it will be of great help to readers familiar with modern literature. It can be helpful for preachers who adopt the sermon text on a verse-by-verse basis.<BR> 10) Expressions that are not grammatical must be corrected.

A short history of empirical homiletics in South Africa

In this article I am telling the story of the history of empirical homiletics, in particular the use of the Grounded Theory methodology of doing content analysis of sermons and other documents, such as interviews, to ascertain in a scientific way the contents of documents. This is an exercise in reflexive-biographical exploration of empirical homiletical methodology. I first discussed the analysis of sermons using quantitative methods in my book Communicative preaching and the thesis of Julian Müller. There was a growing urge amongst homileticians to study the contents of sermons. The Heidelberg analytical method is a form of qualitative sermon analysis. Qualitative methodology suits theologians better than quantitative methods. I have discussed this method and referred to the work of Johan Cilliers in this regard. The next development of sermon content analysis is the Grounded Theory methodology. We made use of the first stage of the development of qualitative Grounded Theory methodology in the analysis of Desmond Tutu’s sermons and statements. After the international publication of this book, Prof. F. Gerrit Immink started using the upgraded form of Grounded Theory by Kathy Charmaz for the empirical homiletical research of his doctoral students at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. I also discussed my book Preaching in a context of poverty as the theoretical part of my later research with Grounded Theory analysis of sermons on poverty. Then I discussed my six yearlong content analysis of sermons preached with Matthew 25:31–46 as sermon text by means of Grounded Theory methodology. Important is the chapter by Müller &amp; Wepener in an international publication, and the article on angry preaching by Wepener and Pieterse which was published in an international journal. Lastly, I have mentioned the post-graduate research with the Grounded Theory method by students. The value that is being added in this article by doing this historical survey is to show the development and to signal what might be waiting in the near future for our discipline.

Religionen og hverdagslivet:

In 1855, the Scottish minister John Caird delivered a sermon before Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Sachsen-Coburg. It made such an impression that the queen demanded it to be printed. The sermon text was Romans 12,11 and the sermon was about religion in common life. Is was not concerned with religion as pertaining to specific practices, times, and places in everyday life. Religion covers everything. Religion is a science and an art to be performed together with any profession or business of daily life. The Presbyterian view is that work itself is as such a glorification of God. Therefore, the sermon was more of a meditation on the Calvinist concept of work. It was soon translated into German and published by the Prussian ambassador to London Baron von Bunsen – and it rapidly became a success in Germany. Bunsen added more specific Lutheran terms to the translation such as calling and duty. In 1857, it appeared in Danish translated by W. Hjort but apparently did not become a success in Lutheran Denmark. A few decades later, however, as part of the age of industrialization the new idea of work as a performance of Christianity was widely accepted.

Interpersonal meaning breadth variation in simultaneous interpreting English – bahasa Indonesia dienic texts: A contrastive-translational mood grammar analysis

This study presents a contrastive-translational MOOD grammar analysis of the realization of interpersonal meaning in Joyce Meyer’s English sermon text and Jose Carol’s Bahasa Indonesia interpreted text. Interpersonal meaning in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the model of Translational Semiotic Communication (TSC) and the model of text type and language function are the theoretical foundations of this study. This study used a descriptive qualitative-quantitative approach, involving the analysis of MOOD and Modality of the data which were translationally related semantic units grammatically expressed by MOOD clause units. The analysis reveals that the texts in this study can be classified as dienic texts with Declaratives and Imperatives as the prominent clauses, while Modality elements realized in T1 were generally realized in T2 in the same types. Declaratives and Imperatives respectively serve the informative and operative function of the texts, and the Modality elements which are mostly of a high degree and expressed explicitly give values to these functions.

ПЕРЕУСТАНОВЛЕНИЕ СЕМАНТИЧЕСКИХ ОППОЗИЦИЙ КАК ОДИН ИЗ ПРИНЦИПОВ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ ЛИТУРГИЙНОЙ ПРАВОСЛАВНОЙ ПРОПОВЕДИ

In the theological semiotic system liturgical space and non-liturgical space are distinguished. This distinction can not but affect the semantic structure of the liturgical Orthodox sermon which is organi-cally related to the liturgical space. The object of the study is the text of the Orthodox liturgical sermon, the subject is the principles of the development of the liturgical sermon text. The theme of this article is related to one of the leading principles of the formation of such text - the principle of reinstalling semantic oppositions, which is caused by the need to prevent habitual perception of those forms whose content is due to the peculiarities of the semantic structure of commonly used language. The relevance of this article is determined by increased attention to religion as an important component of human and social life and, as a consequence, by the cognitive need to understand the nature of the church language actively entering into the reality of modern Russia and to realize scientifically the specifics of intensively renewed and developing speech genres, the central one of which is the speech genre of sermon. The source of the study is the texts of the liturgical sermons of Patriarch Kirill and Archbishop Hermogenes. The methods of the study are determined by the nature of the empirical material. The fundamentals of structural analysis were applied, implying the definition of not only the composition of the object elements, but also their interrela-tions: by segmentation, certain structural elements of sermons were identified and later combined into a cer-tain class on the basis of the discovery of certain regularities in their use. Oppositional analysis has revealed differential and integral features of the sermon structural elements. In addition, the study of the text as a whole dictates the need for a systematic method, proceeding from the understanding of the text as a sys-tem performing a specific function in the supersystem.

Verkündigung im Ehrenamt

Summary Since the Second World War, when pastors were absent, lay preaching in a regular Sunday church liturgy has developed. Today this appears as an alternative when, especially in small rural parishes, a Sunday service would not otherwise take place. “Lectors” typically read a sermon text, provided by the Church for that Sunday and adapt it to their local congregational situation, wheras predicants, who have been trained throughmore substantial study courses in theology for the task of preaching, prepare sermons of their own. The article discusses the common features and differences in these two kinds of “lay” preachers. It looks at the debate about ordaining them though they are not theological professionals, and points to their special contribution to preaching in church.

Current Communication Trends in Church Sermons

The article deals with the main aspects of the present Orthodox sermon development. Verbal peculiarity, topical specific character and a new communication format of the present sermon is considered. Changes in the style of the sermon, its thematic content and ways of communication are shown through sermon text linguistic analysis. The author draws a conclusion about the trends to updating temple preaching genre preserving the traditions of the ecclesiastical canon. The article also describes the alternative forms of Christian preaching outside the church and shows the process of new modern tools of orthodox preaching appearing in the church world out of bounds of the temple.

Thepeculiarities of the sacred lexis usage in traditional and alternative sermon texts

The article outlines the lexical devices realizing sacrality in sermon texts. The article offers the author’s definition of the category of sacrality, determines the peculiarities of religious doctrine of Anglican church and Anglican sermon in particular. The peculiarities of traditional institutional and alternative sermons are being traced and analysed. The research has been carried out on the basis of 14 oral traditional sermons in the English language held during the public service in Anglican church and 11 alternative sermons conducted by alternative gospellers in concert-halls, stadiums, etc. The main purpose of the article is to outline the lexical devices realizing sacrality in sermon texts. There search has been helpful to find out that being the secondary realization of sacral texts by itself the sermon text demonstrates frequent usage of various groups of sacral lexicon, namely specific conceptual terms introducing religious ideas and concepts; expressions borrowed from the initial original sacral texts (the so called biblical expressions); colloquial expressions which acquire religious sense within the attendant context of the sermon and by means of the latter obtain its religious meaning and thus entering the semantic field of religion.

An Emerging Grounded Theory in South Africa with Matthew 25:31-46 as Sermon Text

Since 2009, I am researching sermons on Matthew 25:31-46 by preachers of the Uniting Reformed Church and the Dutch Reformed Church (Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk). The sermons are collected in South Africa’s eight provinces. This is an empirical-homiletic study with a grounded theory methodology. The open coding and selective coding cycles are already completed. This article presents the results of the last cycle, namely theoretical coding. The theory for practice describes the concepts which emerged from the data and shows the relationships between the concepts. This is a theory for the practice of preaching on Matthew 25:31-46 in the South African context of poverty. It has a bearing only on the qualitative analysis of the texts of the sermons on this text in Matthew, and does not address the entire process of the preaching event from the sermon text, the rhetorical and communicative process. It only covers the sermon analyses and the effects on the listeners’ actions on the sermons mentioned in the sermons.

A kora újkori magyarországi prédikációirodalom kutatásának eredményei és jövőbeni irányai

The research of Early Modern sermon literature in Hungary has achieved significant results in the past decades. The research has covered the availability and interpretation of the texts as well as the historical understanding of the metadiscourse of theoretical reflection on preaching. In my opinion, however, we do not always make a clear enough distinction regarding when and to what extent we deliver the work of a literary historian. This study highlights three approaches based on which we do not simply chase the references of the texts but aim at examining their auto-referential characteristics.&#x0D; 1. Two quite different schools of literary studies have a common interest in understanding the intertextuality of sermon texts. Structural description cannot make a move without intertextuality as it has great significance in judging the structure, formation, integrity, and coherence of texts; while its importance for the approach of reception history is obvious.&#x0D; 2. Regarding all the rhetorical systems of the Early Modern Age, rhetorical genre theory was the one which initiated the greatest renewal of the tradition of rhetorical theory that had stemmed from antiquity and had been revealed by Humanism (Melanchthon’s genus didascalicum; Hyperius’ five homiletic genera). The widespread prevalence of Melanchthon’s idea that had lasted for a century was halted by Vossius’ reception, that is, rational-intellectual teaching-disserting confessional discussion gave its place to the discourse of Classicism at the beginning of the 17th century. Hyperius’ classification was cherished by the homiletics of international Calvinism at the end of the 16th century; it turned his literary genres into those parts of the sermon text that give space to the usus. In the second half of the 17th century, in a Lutheran milieu, provoking emotions got a greater significance – the three non-didactic kinds of Hyperius’ five gains could still provide an appropriate framework to it.&#x0D; 3. Out of the reflections that anticipate the late 18th-century theses of poetic and aesthetic thinking, the theoretic positions occupied by homiletics are the most articulated ones in the field of alterity. In the corpus of previous literature, the text group, which can be most evidently compared to the unique role that emotionality would have in post-romantic literature, had developed in the literary genres of piety.

Necessary Difference: A Sermon

The following is a sermon preached by Nathan Carlin at St. John’s Church (United Church of Christ) in Houston, Texas, on January 27, 2013. In line with the conference theme—body/soul, spirit/flesh, self/other—the sermon focuses on several verses in Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth in which Paul discusses the Church as the Body of Christ. The sermon text (1 Cor. 12:12–27) was not chosen because the author was still thinking about the conference theme (the conference, as noted, took place on October 17–19, 2012); this text simply happened to be the lectionary passage assigned to the date. In the sermon, the biblical text, the psychological concept of “the narcissism of minor differences,” and a story from the author’s childhood (a story about Bible quiz competitions) are interwoven. The author felt that such a topic was appropriate for St. John’s Church because the church, on the day that the sermon was delivered, was scheduled to meet about the topic of confirmation classes for youth. All of this is to say that sermons are often expressions of pastoral theology because sermons, while inherently theological, are also pastoral in that they are addressed to specific audiences and focus on matters that the preacher discerns to be of existential concern, both collectively and individually, for those whom the preacher is addressing. In terms of method and style, this sermon was written following the technique of Robert Dykstra as articulated in his Discovering a Sermon: Personal Pastoral Preaching.

A grounded theory approach to the analysis of sermons on poverty: Congregational projects as social capital

This article reported on the second cycle (selective coding) of grounded theory research of sermons on poverty in the South African context, with Matthew 25:31�46 as the sermon text. The problem which the author was researching pertained to the question: How do congregations in the Dutch Reformed Church (Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk) and the Uniting Reformed Church handle the care for the poor in practice? A theoretical sample of congregations with outreach projects to the poor and humble was drawn. After the analysis of the sermons was conducted, the next question to be addressed was: What are the categories and properties of the projects by congregations as the how of the care for the poor? New thinking on the issue of preaching on poverty is necessary because homiletic literature in this field of preaching does not address the how question. The author therefore described a theoretical framework for the interpretation of the projects, as well as an anthropological view of the communication occurring on an equal footing, with the givers in the projects functioning as social capital and the receivers (the poor and humble) as the participants with their own responsibility and freedom. The classification of the projects in categories showed that a wide variety of different types of projects to the poor have emerged from the sermons.

Using Sermon Text Archives to Investigate the Construction of Social Values: A Proposal for a Collaborative Research Agenda in Social Epistemology

This article presents a detailed description of a research agenda and methodology inspired by Jesse Shera’s notion of social epistemology as the study of “the ways in which society generates new knowledge, disseminates it, and uses it to contribute to the values the society seeks.” The research agenda is ambitious and echoes the call that Shera put forth with Margaret Egan that librarianship be a discipline “for the effective investigation of the whole complex problem of the intellectual processes of society.” The research agenda focuses on sermons as a communication medium that significantly influences the social construction of knowledge. With the advent of the World Wide Web and the increasing ease by which anyone may publish messages of every sort for all the world to receive and for scholars to study, Egan and Shera’s vision of macrocosmic bibliography and documentation is coming to fruition. The article proposes a collaborative effort between theological librarians and researchers in the field of religion and information science in order to facilitate Egan and Shera’s call to analyze “the production, distribution, and utilization of intellectual products [i.e., sermons] in much the same fashion as that in which the production, distribution, and utilization of material products have long been investigated.”

Global Feminism and Inclusion in Anna Howard Shaw's 1893 Sermon

This article, in three sections, introduces the sermon that Anna Howard Shaw preached during the World’s Congress of Representative Women on May 21st, 1893. The first section draws on Shaw’s autobiographical reflections to describe the sermon, and gives information about the preacher and the context; the second section describes the ground-breaking, feminist sermon, and its significance; and the third section reproduces the complete sermon text.

An open coding analytical model of sermons on poverty with Matthew 25:31-46 as sermon text

This article reports on the first cycle (out of three) of a grounded theory analysis of sermons on poverty with Matthew 25:31-46 as sermon text. The problem addressed in this research project has to do with the poverty situation in South Africa. The leading research question is: how do preachers deal with sermons on poverty with this text as sermon text. The goal of the first phase in this project is to develop an open coding analytical model from the sermons. Six sermons by Uniting Reformed Church preachers and six sermons by Dutch Reformed Church preachers have been analyzed. Significant sermon segments in the light of the research question were then coded in the analysis. Initial categories could then be formed as they emerged from the data, based on the open coded codes. From the categories an open coding analytical model with hypotheses has been constructed.