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André Resner Jr.
 

large product photo   PROFESSOR OF HOMILETICS AND CHURCH WORSHIP
CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF PASTORAL THEOLOGY
B.A., Pepperdine University (1980);
M.S., Pepperdine University (1988);
M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary (1988);
Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary (1998).

Denominational Affiliation:

  Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
     

Title/Role:

  Ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament
     

Teaching Interests:

 
  • Introductory preaching
  • Preaching on social issues
  • Preaching and the lectionary
  • Preaching in the context of worship
  • Worship: from traditional to emergent and missional
  • Oral interpretation of scripture
     

Publications and Presentations

 

Books:

  • Just Preaching: Prophetic Voices for Economic Justice (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2003) Named one of the top ten books of the year by the Academy for Parish Clergy
  • Preacher and Cross: Person and Message in Theology and Rhetoric
    (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999)

Articles (selected, not comprehensive):

  • “Casting Our Mammon on the Baptismal Waters: Preaching Economic Justice in Lent,” Journal for Preachers, 27 (2004) 42-50.
  • "Character," in The New Interpreter’s Bible Handbook of Preaching, edited by Paul Scott Wilson (Abingdon: forthcoming).
  • Essays on the Homiletical Perspective of various biblical texts in The Lectionary Commentary Series, Volume II, edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor (Westminster John Knox Press, forthcoming).
  • “Ēthos,” in The New Interpreter’s Bible Handbook of Preaching, edited by Paul Scott Wilson (Abingdon: forthcoming).
  • “Social Justice,” in The New Interpreter’s Bible Handbook of Preaching, edited by Paul Scott Wilson (Abingdon: forthcoming).
  • “Lament: Faith’s Response to Loss,” in Restoration Quarterly, 32 (1990) 129-142.
  • “Logos,” in The New Interpreter’s Bible Handbook of Preaching, edited by Paul Scott Wilson (Abingdon: forthcoming).
  • Numerous entries throughout all three volumes in The Lectionary Commentary: Theological Exegesis for Sunday’s Texts, edited by Roger Van Harn (Eerdmans, 2001).
  • “Preaching as Show and Tell: All I Ever Needed to Preach a Good Sermon I Learned in Kindergarten,” Restoration Quarterly, 40 (1998) 253-260.
  • “Preaching the Cross: A Confessional Journey,” Journal for Preachers, 24 (2001) 15-28.
  • “Reading, Preaching and Teaching the Psalms,” Leaven, 4 (1996) 37-39.
  • “Reading the Text for Economic Justice: Mark 12:38-44 for Stewardship Season,” in Living Pulpit, 12 (2003) 6-7.
  • “To Worship or Evangelize: Ecclesiology’s Phantom Fork in the Road,” Restoration Quarterly, 36 (1994) 65-80.

Book Reviews (selected, not comprehensive):

  • Achtemeier, Elizabeth, Preaching from the Minor Prophets: Texts and Sermon Suggestions (Eerdmans, 1998) in Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 20 (1999) 354-356.
  • Aden, Leroy and Robert Hughes, Preaching God’s Compassion: Comforting Those Who Suffer (Augsburg Fortress, 2002) in Interpretation, 58 (2004) 218-220.
  • Allen, Ronald, Contemporary Biblical Interpretation for Preaching (Judson Press, 1984) in Koinonia, 3 (1991) 83-85.
  • Campbell, Charles, The Word Before the Powers: an Ethic of Preaching (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2002) in Interpretation, 57 (2003) 314-317.
  • Collier, Gary, The Forgotten Treasure: Reading the Bible Like Jesus (Howard Publishing Company, 1993) in Restoration Quarterly, 36 (1994) 189-190.
  • Forde, Gerhard, Theology is for Proclamation (Augsburg Fortress, 1994) in Restoration Quarterly, 37 (1995) 122-124.
  • Mays, James Luther, Psalms (Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994) in Restoration Quarterly, 37 (1995) 189-190.

Chapters in Books (selected, not comprehensive):

  • “At Cross Purposes: Gospel, Scripture, and Experience in Preaching,” in Preaching Autobiography: Connecting the World of the Preacher and the World of the Text (ACU Press, 2001): 47-74.

Sermons (selected, not comprehensive):

  • “A Year of Lament,” Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 9 (1988) 159-162.
  • “And So, We are Angry: A Sermon,” Testament: a Publication of the Princeton Theological Seminary Community, 3 (1991) 21-24.
  • “Knowing and Being Known (Psalm 139),” in Howard Butt Jr., Renewing the Spirit, Healing the Soul (Laicom, 2000).
  • “Looking at the Doorknob,” Image Magazine, 12 (1996) 7-9.
  • “Maintain the Broken Wall: Ephesians 2:14-18,” Restoration Quarterly, 32 (1990) 121-125.
  • “The Seeker,” in Wineskins

Newspaper Articles:

  • “How Will You Finish the Story?” Salisbury Post, March 26, 2005.
  • “Would an Act of God be so Sloppy?” Salisbury Post, October 12, 2005.

Online Publications:

“Glorious Spectacles,” http://www.thehighcalling.org/Library/ViewLibrary.asp?LibraryID=833.

“N.T. Professor Slapped with Textual Harassment Suit,” www.TheDoorMagazine.com, 12/9/00.

“One Thing I Do,” http://www.thehighcalling.org/Library/ViewLibrary.asp?LibraryID=180.

“The Power of Negative Thinking,” http://www.thehighcalling.org/Library/Print.asp?LibraryID=279.

“Too Faithful to Work?” http://www.thehighcalling.org/Library/ViewLibrary.asp?LibraryID=337.

 

     

Current Areas of Research:

 
  • The hermeneutics of the gospel in relation to scripture and context
  • The relationship of rhetoric and theology in preaching the gospel
  • Interdisciplinary matters pertaining to theology’s relationship to social science disciplines
  • The nature of the preacher’s person in relation to preaching the gospel
  • Social Justice issues in relation to preaching the gospel
  • Emerging Church and Emerging Worship
     

Prior Teaching

 

New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, NJ
Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX

     

Memberships:

 
  • The Academy of Homiletics -Convener of the Pedagogy Work Group
  • The Association of Practical Theology

Presentations:

  "The Preacher as God's Steward," as part of a panel in the Rhetoric Work Group, The Academy of Homiletics, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2007