Sermons From Duke Chapel - Voices From 'A Great Towering Church'

Informationen zum Autor William H. Willimon is Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church. From 1984 to 2004, he was Dean of the Chapel and Professor of Christian Ministry at Duke University. Willimon is the author of dozens of books, which together have sold more than one million copies. His book Worship as Pastoral Care was selected as one of the ten most useful books for pastors by the Academy of Parish Clergy in 1979. An international survey conducted by Baylor University in 1996 named him one of the twelve most effective preachers in the English-speaking world. Willimon lives in Birmingham, Alabama. Klappentext "These sermons recapitulate the nature of mainline preaching in the twentieth century and ponder aloud the place of Christian faith in a major 'secular' university founded in part out of a strong Protestant faith."--David L. Bartlett, author of "What's Good about This News? Preaching from the Gospels and Galatians" Zusammenfassung Offers 57 diverse sermons preached in Duke Chapel by such notable figures as Billy Graham! Paul Tillich! and Barbara Brown Taylor and a fascinating analysis of the acoustic and visual challenges of preaching and listening at Duke Chapel. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction / William H. Willimon 1 2. The Cathedral and the Campus, June 2, 1935 / Lynn Harold Hough 9 3. Be Strong, March 13, 1955 / Paul Tillich 18 4. Moral Crisis in a Troubled South, April 29, 1956 / H. Shelton Smith 24 5. Even the Desert Shall Bloom, April 7, 1957 / Eugene Carson Blake 30 6. Education for Failure, April 14, 1957 / Waldo Beach 36 7. June 2, 1957 / Gerald Kennedy 42 8. Postmortem on a Salesman, February 1, 1959 / James T. Cleland 51 9. The Courage to Care, February 14, 1960 / D. Elton Trueblood 59 10. The Idea of a University, January 29, 1961 / Robert E. Cushman 63 11. Human Weakness and Divine Strength, February 24, 1963 / Martin Niemoller 71 12. Burdened with Erudition and Paralyzed with Indecision: A Sermon on Learned Paralytics, March 12, 1967 / William Sloane Coffin Jr. 76 13. Communion Meditation, October 1, 1967 / Jurgen Moltmann 81 14. Homecoming, October 22, 1967 / Thomas A. Langford 86 15. And So What Have You Done for Me Lately?, December 10, 1967 / Albert C. Outler 91 16. Thou Shalt Not Kill, June 9, 1968 / Thor Hall 98 17. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, October 26, 1969 / Browne Barr 104 18. God's Helplessness-Our Help, April 12, 1970 / Eduard Schweizer 109 19. Address Not Known, March 7, 1971 / Edmund A. Steimle 114 20. What Is Religion All about, Anyway? A Dialogue Sermon, September 5, 1971 / Clarence G. Newsome and Howard C. Wilkinson 120 21. The Christian in a Revolutionary Age, September 26, 1971 / Myron S. Augsburger 127 22. A Necessary Tension, February 6, 1972 / D. Moody Smith Jr. 138 23. The Generous Eye, June 11, 1972 / John W. Carlton 143 24. Finding Answers, September 23, 1973 / Billy Graham 148 25. The Impossible Possibility, March 31, 1974 / Letty Russel 153 26. The Wisdom of Being Foolish, May 10, 1975 / William Stringfellow 158 27. What's the Story?, May 11, 1975 / Ernest T. Campbell 166 28. The Bible Today, October 24, 1976 / W. D. Davies 172 29. That You Might Have Life, January 23, 1977 / Will Campbell 180 30. Not to Condemn Us, April 17, 1977 / Carlyle Marney 186 31. The Enigmatic God, November 20, 1977 / Carter Heyward 193 32. Righteous Anger, August 27, 1978 / Clarence G. Newsome 202 33. The Gothic Principle, January 21, 1979 / Howard Thurman 208 34. Seeing and Not Seeing, October 21, 1979 / Leander Keck 211 35. Have You Been to Damascus?, March 20, 1983 / C. Eric Lincoln 218 36. The Usefulness of a Useless Vision, November 6, 1983 / Martin E. Marty 223 37. There is a Point in Living, November 13, 1983 / Donald Macleod 229 3...

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William H. Willimon is Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church. From 1984 to 2004, he was Dean of the Chapel and Professor of Christian Ministry at Duke University. Willimon is the author of dozens of books, which together have sold more than one million copies. His book Worship as Pastoral Care was selected as one of the ten most useful books for pastors by the Academy of Parish Clergy in 1979. An international survey conducted by Baylor University in 1996 named him one of the twelve most effective preachers in the English-speaking world. Willimon lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

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• Authors: William H. Willimon, William H. (EDT) Willimon
• Assisted by: William H Willimon (Editor), William H. Willimon (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.2005
• EAN: 9780822334835
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3483-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 248 mm x 32 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology