From Prayer to Proclamation: Re-centering the Pneumatological Foundations of Pastoral Speech in the Digital Age
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This article argues that the contemporary crisis of Pentecostal preaching is fundamentally pneumatological before it is homiletical. Digital technology has not merely altered the methods of pastoral communication; it has restructured the very conditions in which pastoral authority is formed, exercised, and received. Drawing on Ray S. Anderson, Terry Cross, Truls Åkerlund, Daniel Tomberlin, and Amos Yong—alongside insights from the author’s own paracletic leadership framework— this article proposes a constructive response to the mediatization of preaching. If prayer forms the pastor, proclamation participates in Christ’s ongoing paracletic work, and discernment shapes the community’s reception of divine address, then the pastoral vocation must shift from proclaimer to facilitator of Spirit-formed encounter.
Source: Spiritus ORU Journal of Theology
Author: Mario Hood
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7225465639