Thomas G Long
Biographic Data
| ID | 4689600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas G Long |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas G |
| FAMILY NAME | Long |
| SIGNATURE | LONG T G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Brian Blount as Eventful Preacher
As an academically trained biblical scholar and as one formed in the Black Church tradition, Brian Blount combines in his preaching attention to the rhetorical power of biblical texts characteristic of recent trends in philosophical hermeneutics with a social hermeneutic born out of the experience of the Black Church. The result is preaching that is eventful in impact, apocalyptic in theological outlook, and interventionist in rhetorical strategy
The Christian Funeral as Counter Witness
The proliferation of unconventional death practices in North America, however innovative, is in part an expression of societal confusion about the nature of death and grief. If the church can recover the theological and liturgical fabric of funerals, reclaiming their main purpose as public confession rather than private pastoral care, Christian funerals can serve as a hopeful counter-witness to an uncertain culture
The First Commandment With a Promise
Christian sermons characteristically result from the interaction of a biblical text and the social and cultural contexts in which the sermon is created and into which it is spoken. In this regard, biblical texts are understood not as containers of unchanging truth but as fields of meaning capable of yielding different insights in each new context, and sermons constitute oral performances of these insights. As a test case, American Christian sermo…
Soul Man
Beyond the Worship Wars
Almost every congregation is experiencing tension over worship. Many congregations have been participating in a renaissance of worship known as the "liturgical movement" and have reclaimed worship forms that have served the church for centuries. Yet because the church today is operating in a radically changed cultural environment, many people in our society do not understand liturgical worship and thus we must find language, music, themes, and im…
Why Jessica Mitford was Wrong
Waiting for the Morning Star
Stand Up, Stand Up for (the Historical) Jesus
Beavis and Butt-Head Get Saved
God Be Merciful to Me, a Miscalculator
If I could I'd confess Good and loud, nice and slow Get this load off my chest Yes, but how, Lord—I don't know. What I say I don't feel What I feel I don't show What I show isn 't real What is real, Lord, I don't know No, no, no—I don't know. ...(“Trope: I Don't Know,” Mass, Leonard Bernstein)
Myers-Briggs and Other Modern Astrologies
Liturgical Storm Clouds
Job
“The Book of Job is, ultimately, not about what it means that humans suffer. It is about what it means to be human at all when God is seen truly to be God. ... This great text stands over against the prevalent religious impulse to fabricate a wishful picture of the world, to imagine the sort of God who would rule benignly over such a world, and then to bow down in worship before this projection of our own sense of moral order.”
Symposium
Moses, Aaron, and Practical Theology
Love Feast
Job
“The Book of Job is, ultimately, not about what it means that humans suffer. It is about what it means to be human at all when God is seen truly to be God. ... This great text stands over against the prevalent religious impulse to fabricate a wishful picture of the world, to imagine the sort of God who would rule benignly over such a world, and then to bow down in worship before this projection of our own sense of moral order.”
Love Feast
Moses, Aaron, and Practical Theology
Symposium
Job
“The Book of Job is, ultimately, not about what it means that humans suffer. It is about what it means to be human at all when God is seen truly to be God. ... This great text stands over against the prevalent religious impulse to fabricate a wishful picture of the world, to imagine the sort of God who would rule benignly over such a world, and then to bow down in worship before this projection of our own sense of moral order.”
Liturgical Storm Clouds
Myers-Briggs and Other Modern Astrologies
God Be Merciful to Me, a Miscalculator
If I could I'd confess Good and loud, nice and slow Get this load off my chest Yes, but how, Lord—I don't know. What I say I don't feel What I feel I don't show What I show isn 't real What is real, Lord, I don't know No, no, no—I don't know. ...(“Trope: I Don't Know,” Mass, Leonard Bernstein)
Beavis and Butt-Head Get Saved
Waiting for the Morning Star
Stand Up, Stand Up for (the Historical) Jesus
Why Jessica Mitford was Wrong
Beyond the Worship Wars
Almost every congregation is experiencing tension over worship. Many congregations have been participating in a renaissance of worship known as the "liturgical movement" and have reclaimed worship forms that have served the church for centuries. Yet because the church today is operating in a radically changed cultural environment, many people in our society do not understand liturgical worship and thus we must find language, music, themes, and im…
Soul Man
The First Commandment With a Promise
Christian sermons characteristically result from the interaction of a biblical text and the social and cultural contexts in which the sermon is created and into which it is spoken. In this regard, biblical texts are understood not as containers of unchanging truth but as fields of meaning capable of yielding different insights in each new context, and sermons constitute oral performances of these insights. As a test case, American Christian sermo…
The Christian Funeral as Counter Witness
The proliferation of unconventional death practices in North America, however innovative, is in part an expression of societal confusion about the nature of death and grief. If the church can recover the theological and liturgical fabric of funerals, reclaiming their main purpose as public confession rather than private pastoral care, Christian funerals can serve as a hopeful counter-witness to an uncertain culture
Brian Blount as Eventful Preacher
As an academically trained biblical scholar and as one formed in the Black Church tradition, Brian Blount combines in his preaching attention to the rhetorical power of biblical texts characteristic of recent trends in philosophical hermeneutics with a social hermeneutic born out of the experience of the Black Church. The result is preaching that is eventful in impact, apocalyptic in theological outlook, and interventionist in rhetorical strategy
Philosophy (15 works) · Theology (14 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works)