Leonard Sweet

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Leonard I. Sweet (* 1947 in West Virginia ) is an American Methodist pastor, semiotics , church historian, preacher and author. He is the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism in Drew University's Theological Seminary in Madison, New Jersey . He is a thought leader of the emerging church movement, bestselling author, and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Christians in America by ChurchReport Magazine in 2006 and 2007 . In 2010 he was also named one of the most important Christian leaders worldwide.

Live and act

Sweet grew up in rural Alvon in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia and was heavily influenced by his Methodist mother, through whom he learned the Bible and the Christian faith. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of Richmond in Richmond , Virginia . He received his Masters in Theology from Colgate Rochester Divinity School and a PhD in Theology from the University of Rochester in Rochester , New York .

He has taught as visiting professor at Tabor College in Wichita, Kansas and George Fox University in Portland , Oregon . He is the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism in Madison, New Jersey. Prior to 1985, he was the principal of Colgate Rochester Bexley Hall Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York. For eleven years he was President and Professor of Church History at the United Theological Seminary in Dayton , Ohio . He was vice president of academic affairs and dean of the theological faculty at Drew University for five years. He is an ordained pastor of the United Methodist Church and was elected to leadership positions in that church to address various general conferences and the 1996 World Methodist Congress in Rio de Janeiro . He also served as an advisor to many church leaders in America. He is a member of the West Virginia Annual Conference .

As the founder and president of SpiritVenture Ministries (SVM), in 1995 he launched Sweet's SoulCafe , a newsletter on spirituality in the postmodern era , which was purchased by Broadman & Holman Publishing . His privately published notebook ChartNotes was sold out before its release. Sweet wrote more than two hundred articles in total, published about 1,300 sermons, and wrote dozens of books. Together with his wife Karen Elizabeth Rennie, he is responsible for preaching on the premors.com website and is the director of createthestory.com . He and his wife wrote Homiletics , one of the most important collections of sermons in North America, which went online at wikiletics.com in 2005 . In 2000, Sweet published the first religious electronic book on Amazon called The Dawn Mistaken for Dusk (German: If God loves the world so, why can't we? ) He also has books with Frank Viola , Brian Ross and Joe Myers wrote.

Sweet is a member of the council of the American Society of Church History (German: American Society for Church History ), and he was co-editor of the journal of the American Academy of Religion for ten years. In addition to the USA, he has spoken as a speaker in churches and universities in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, England, Wales, South Africa, South Korea, Iceland, Scotland, China, Indonesia and Latvia.

Private

Sweet is married to Karen Elizabeth Rennie and they live on the west coast of the USA in Orcas Island in Washington .

Honors

Sweet has received several honorary doctorates in the USA and has also been able to hold teaching positions at these corresponding universities:

  • University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
  • Baker University, Baldwin City , Kansas
  • Otterbein College, Westerville , Ohio
  • Coe College, Iowa
  • Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania

Fonts (selection)

  • The three hardest Words in the World to get right , WaterBrook, 2006, ISBN 1-57856-648-7
  • The Gospel According to Starbucks , WaterBrook, 2007
  • The Voice from on High , Thomas Nelson, Nashville 2007
  • The Voice: Genesis , Thomas Nelson, Nashville 2008
  • The Church of the Perfect Storm , Abingdon, 2008
  • 11: Indispensable Relationships You Can't Be Without , Cook Communications, 2008
  • Postmodern and Wesleyan? Exploring the Boundaries and Possibilities , Beacon Hill Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-83412458-5
  • So Beautiful , Cook Communications, 2009
  • with Frank Viola: Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ , Thomas Nelson, Nashville 2010, ISBN 978-0-84994601-1
  • Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There, David C. Cook, 2010, ISBN 1434764745
  • with Lori Wagner: The Seraph Seal , Thomas Nelson, Nashville 2011, ISBN 978-084992077-6
  • Real Church in a Social Network World: From Facebook to Face-to-Face Faith , WaterBrook Press, 2011
  • I Am a Follower: The Way, Truth, and Life of Following Jesus , Thomas Nelson, Nashville 2012, ISBN 978-0-84994638-7
  • Viral: How Social Networking is Poised to Ignite Revival , WaterBrook, 2012, ISBN 978-030745915-2
  • What Matters Most: How We Got the Point but Missed the Person , WaterBrook, 2012, ISBN 978-0-30773057-2
  • The Greatest Story Never Told: Revive Us Again , Abingdon, 2012, ISBN 978-1-42674032-9
  • with Frank Viola: Jesus: A Theography , Thomas Nelson, Nashville 2012, ISBN 978-0-84994702-5
  • The Well Played Life , Tyndale, 2014, ISBN 978-1-41437362-1
  • Giving Blood: A Fresh Paradigm for Preaching , Zondervan, Grand Rapids 2014, ISBN 978-0-31051545-6

criticism

People who have remained firmly attached to their tradition or modernity and therefore reject the postmodern emerging church movement also criticize Sweet and disparagingly accuse him of unbiblical piety, a so-called New Age spirituality.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://evangelical.edu/about/faculty/leonard-sweet/
  2. ↑ English biography on website of Leonard Sweet
  3. ↑ English biography of Leonard Sweet on the Tyndale website
  4. ↑ English biography on website of Leonard Sweet
  5. ↑ https://www.preachitteachit.org/contributors/single-view/leonard-sweet/
  6. ↑ https://amos37.com/nasls/
  7. ↑ Berit Kjos: Leonard Sweet - Futurist, Author, Emerging Church leader & Saddleback Church speaker. Emphasis added in bold letters below
personal data
SURNAME Sweet, Leonard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sweet, Leonard I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Methodist pastor, semioticist, church historian, preacher, and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH West Virginia