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Sally A. Brown

Elizabeth M. Engle Associate Professor of Preaching and Worship

Sally A. Brown
Practical Theology
14 Mackay Campus Center

Phone: 609.688.1633
Fax: 609.924.2973
sally.brown@ptsem.edu
Presbyterian

Profile
Sally A. Brown is Princeton Seminary’s Elizabeth M. Engle Associate Professor of Preaching and Worship. She has an MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary. An ordained Presbyterian minister with more than 20 years of parish and nonparish pastoral experience prior to beginning her academic career, she continues to teach and preach in local congregations. Her academic interests include the theology and rhetoric of the cross in contemporary preaching, with attention to issues raised by feminist theology and postmodern theories of discourse; exploring the history, theology, and rhetoric of women’s preaching in a range of cultural contexts; identifying trajectories of continuity and change in worship today, with attention to the what and why of Christian worship, theologically, as well as the difference context makes in worship practices; and hermeneutical theory and constructive practical theology. She teaches preaching and worship as well as a PhD seminar in theories of interpretation and constructive practical theology.

Select Publications

  • Cross Talk: Preaching Redemption Here and Now (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008)
  • Lament: Reclaiming Practices in Pulpit, Pew, and Public Square (Westminster John Knox Press, 2005)

Educating faithful Christian leaders.

Associate Rector at Trinity Church, Princeton, New Jersey

Nancy Hagner, Class of 2013

“Preaching is one of the most important things we do as pastors because it’s one of the last places in our society where people will actually listen, perhaps to things they may not agree with.”