Subject Guides: THEO 6740 From Scripture to Sermon: Lectionary commentaries in particular

Introduction

This tab focuses on lectionary commentaries. To find more of these, see the list of Library of Congress Subject Headings and/or Free-Floating Subdivisions, below. For help identifying traditional modern commentaries on the Bible by passage, see also that same box below.

The Text This Week
Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship by Thomas G. Long, Luke A. Powery, & Cynthia L. Rigby (Editors)
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2018-
9 vols. projected.
Preaching God's Transforming Justice: A Lectionary Commentary by Ronald J. Allen, Dale P. Andrews, & Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm (Editors))
Call Number: REF BS680 .J8P742
Publication Date: 2011-2013
3 vols.
Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary by David L. Bartlett & Barbara Brown Taylor (Editors)
Call Number: REF BV4235 .L43F43 2008
Publication Date: 2008-2011
12 vols.
Common Worship Lectionary by Leslie Houlden & John Rogerson (Editors)
Call Number: REF BS534.5 .C65
Publication Date: 2001-2003
3 vols. "covers the Anglican variations [on the Revised Common Lectionary?] not dealt with in American [lectionary] commentaries."
The Lectionary Commentary: Theological Readings for Sunday's Texts by Roger Van Harn (Editor)
Call Number: REF BS534.5 .L43 2001
Publication Date: 2001
3 vols.
Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary by Marion L. Soards, Thomas Dozeman, & Kendall McCabe
Call Number: REF BV4235 .L43S63
Publication Date: 1992-1994
12 vols.
Preaching the New Common Lectionary by Fred B. Craddock et al. (Editors)
Call Number: BS534.5 .P735 1985
Publication Date: 1985
SPU owns Year C, Lent, Holy Week, Easter only.

New Proclamation
Publication Date: 1998- (Fortress), 2012- (Abingdon via Ministry Matters)
Note in the Princeton Theological Seminary catalog for the series dated 1998- : "Continues six earlier series of: Proclamation, issued in multiple sections and cataloged as monographic sets."
Proclamation: [Aids for] Interpreting the Lessons of the Church Year
Call Number: 1988-
18 vols. + 4 on the lesser festivals (in at least one instantiation of this Fortress Press series (periodical?) with a complicated history).
Preaching the New Common Lectionary by Fred B. Craddock (Editor)
Publication Date: 1987 [1985]
3 vols.

For help locating traditional modern commentaries on the Bible by individual passage, go here (Old Testament focus) and here (New Testament focus).

Some Library of Congress Subject Headings and/or Free-Floating Subdivisions:

Bible . . . —Homiletical use | Preaching

Lectionary Preaching

Bible . . . —Liturgical lessons, English. Or any other language

Bible . . . —Liturgical use

Church year sermons

Common lectionary (1992). Or any other such proper name