Every Year Again … The Festive Sermon under Pressure for Innovation, and its Understanding as Interruption and Mystagogy. The familiar critique of the conventionality of the sermon contrasts with the vision of its innovative potential regardingform and content. With the approach of the annual innovation pressure on preachers builds up. However, this rests on the problematic figure of thought that the content of the celebration is set out and only needs to be shared and communicated. However, the temporality of the festivity and the rupture in time should be kept in mind, the kairos which is expected and hoped for in the chronos, and inwhich lies the genuine innovation. In the context of the church service and its rites, the paradigm ofinterruption and that of mystagogy are at hand – for both of them the point is to expect the new in “old” words, images and stories of the Bible.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Deeg, geb. 1972, Professor für Praktische Theologie an der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Leipzig und Leiter des Liturgiewissenschaftlichen Instituts der VELKD. Pfarrer der Evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche in Bayern. Von 2000 bis 2009 Assistent im Fach Praktische Theologie am Lehrstuhl von Martin Nicol. Gemeinsame Weiterarbeit an der Dramaturgischen Homiletik. 2005 Promotion mit einer Arbeit zur Predigt im jüdisch-christlichen Dialog. 2011 Habilitation mit... mehr...
