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Une prédication vécue comme un événement associe les auditeurs par sa configuration passionnante et créatrice. Elle ne veut pas tellement informer, mais bien plutôt conduire à une expérience nouvelle avec la foi et avec Dieu. La contribution fournit ainsi une introduction à l’homilétique comme « mise en scène » du théologien allemand Martin Nicol.

In order for a homily to be successful, it must make an impact on the audience. This ‘performative’ method, which connects preaching to the arts, becomes something akin to a creative act. The biblical Word of God must be fulfilled afresh in the homily. The German theologian Martin Nicol, influenced by North American approaches, compares the homily to dramaturgy. A homily as event aims above all at a new and living encounter with God, while its tasks of information and exhortation to the Christian life remain in the background. It is the movement back and forth between Scripture and contemporary life, between content and form, between social context and individual experience, that lends preaching a ‘dramatic’ quality, in the best sense of the term.