While admitting particular parameters and priorities for Roman Catholic preachers this volume was intentionally envisioned as a handbook for catholic preaching in the broadest and most universal sense of that term. Cosponsored by the Catholic Academy of Liturgy the Catholic Association of Teachers of Homiletics and the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions it covers the role of the Scriptures in preaching the challenges of preaching in a digital age sermonizing in an interfaith context and the need for a liberative and prophetic word that cuts across denominations and even faith traditions. Intended to aid those who teach or direct the preaching arts the design and writing style of this book are particularly calibrated to graduate students in ministerial studies. Every article is a selfcontained overview of a particular historical period genre of preaching homiletic theory or contemporary issue. This more encyclopedic approachdevoid of footnotes yet supported by pertinent bibliography and an extensive indexprovides a sufficiently rich yet thoroughly accessible gateway to major facets of the preaching arts at this stage of the twentyfirst century.General Editor Edward FoleyAssociate Editors Catherine Vincie Richard N. FragomeniContributors Herbert Anderson John F. Baldovin Alden Lee Bass Dianne Bergant Stephen Bevans Robert Bireley John Carr Anthony Collamati Michael E. Connors Guerric DeBona Frank DeSiano William T. Ditewig Con Foley Edward Foley Richard N. Fragomeni Ann M. Garrido Gregory Heille Lucy Lind Hogan Patrick R. Lagges David J. Lose Barbara K. Lundblad Ricky Manalo Robert F. Morneau Carolyn Muessig vanThanh Nguyen Mary Margaret Pazdan Patricia Parachini Jorge Presmanes Craig Alan Satterlee Catherine Vincie Richard Vosko James A. Wallace Margaret Moers Wenig Alex Zenthoefer