Again, yet another 'breakthrough'. Although, at the rate I'm going, I'll be breaking windows before I get any writing done. Setting the outline has been a nightmare, since I have chapters 2 through 6 set in concrete, or maybe carved in marble, but have been wrestling like Jacob at the Jabbok with chapter 1.
Chapter One sets up the whole project. Chapter One sets the course, the direction, the tone and the tenor of what I'm going to be working on for the next four years. Chapter One introduces the concepts of 'pastoral' and 'dramaturgy'. Chapter One is the first impression. Chapter One is IT!
How will I begin, which pastoring or dramaturgy? Will the chapter be about preaching, sermons, dramaturgy, or the work of pastoring? Which order to the items need to be in? Introductory items first working toward a conclusion or concluding items first and then show the rest as evidence, as if in a trial?
While I'm still not sure about evidence or introductory material first, I am, finally and thankfully and limpingly certain that Chapter One will be focused on the call to enhance the richness of sermons: "Enhancing Salubrity - A Pastoral-Dramaturgical Vocation".
May the muses speak, the floodgates open, and the words just simply flow onto the screen.
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