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Cleophus J. LaRue is Francis Landey Patton Associate Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. He is the author of The Heart of Black Preaching and the editor of Power in the Pulpit: How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons, both available from WJK.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0664236774
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Westminster John Knox Press (April 4, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780664236779
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0664236779
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches
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Cleophus J. LaRue is the Francis Landey Patton Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a prolific author who specializes in the theory and method of African American preaching and worship. An ordained minister in the National Baptist Convention of America, LaRue is the former pastor of churches in Texas and New York.

He is a frequent speaker at churches, seminaries, and conferences throughout the country and is a member of the Academy of Homiletics. He lectures and preaches throughout the United States and has taught homiletics on five different continents.

Major Publications

His most recent work entitled: Rethinking Celebration: From Rhetoric to Praise, is published by Westminster John Knox Press and due out in the summer of 2016.

Colored Preaching: The Shape of Christian Proclamation in the Global South (forthcoming)

He has also written and/or edited the following works:

I Believe I'll Testify: Reflections on African American Preaching,(Westminster John Knox Press, 2010)

More Power in the Pulpit: How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons, editor (Westminster John Knox Press, 2009)

The New Interpreter's Handbook of Preaching (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008) Co-editors Paul Scott Wilson, Jana Childers, and John M. Rottman

This Is My Story: Testimonies and Sermons of Black Women in Ministry, editor (Westminster John Knox Press, 2005)

Power in the Pulpit: How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons, editor. (Westminster John Knox Press, 2002)

The Heart of Black Preaching (Westminster John Knox Press, 1999)

LaRue received an honorary doctorate from Coe College in 2003 and in 2012 Baylor University named him a distinguished alumnus.

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