This thesis explores the use ofthe creative arts of music, drama and visual arts in preaching. The thesis emerges out of a congregation set in a highly academic environment in which the author discerned the need to preach sermons that stimulate not only the intellectual capacity of the listeners, but the emotions and intuitions as well. Drawing upon the theory of multiple intelligences as advanced by Howard Gardner, the author has presented sermons incorporating diverse artistic media as a means of engaging these various intelligences. Feedback to these sermons was solicited through both written and verbal responses in order to measure the effectiveness of the creative arts in reaching the listeners in ways that move beyond merely intellectual engagement. The thesis posits that the use of such creative elements can be an effective way of addressing the whole beings of the listeners and engaging the different modes of intelligence present in the congregation.
