2004 Gardner C. Taylor Lectures
September 17, 2004
Dr. Cleophus J. LaRue, Patton, author of The Heart of Black Preaching is the featured speaker for the 2004 Gardner C. Taylor Lectures sponsored by the office of Black Church Studies and the Black Seminarians Union at Duke Divinity School, October 5 and 6.
Dr. LaRue is Francis Landey Patton Associate Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary and specializes in the theory and method of African American preaching and worship. LaRue is an ordained minister in the National Baptist Convention. A member of the Academy of Homiletics and the Society for the Study of Black Religion, he is the editor of Power in the Pulpit: How America’s Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons.
The Gardner C. Taylor Lectures are an annual event at Duke Divinity School that has brought the nation’s most outstanding African-American preachers to Duke and Durham since 1975. Sponsored by the Office of Black Church Studies and the Black Seminarians Union, these lectures are co-hosted by area churches.
The lectures will take place at York Chapel in the divinity school with a special community worship on Tuesday, Oct. 5 occurring at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Durham. For more information, please call (919) 660-3444.