Sermons from Duke Chapel: Voices from "A Great Towering Church"

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William H. Willimon
Duke University Press, 2005 M03 2 - 384 páginas
Many of America’s greatest Protestant preachers—Paul Tillich, William Sloane Coffin, Barbara Brown Taylor, Fleming Rutledge, Peter J. Gomes, Billy Graham, and others—have spoken powerfully from the pulpit of the “great towering church” that is the spiritual and architectural center of Duke University. This collection of fifty-eight of the most notable sermons proclaimed from that pulpit commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the groundbreaking for Duke Chapel. It is a sweeping panorama of sermons selected and edited by Bishop William H. Willimon, Dean of the Chapel for twenty years and one of the most widely read writers on preaching in America.

Opening with the sermon preached in June 1935 at the dedication of the Chapel and closing with one by Willimon delivered at the beginning of the 2003–4 school year, this volume presents Protestant Christianity at its most eloquent and prophetic. Some sermons are pure meditations on biblical texts; others are period pieces in the best sense of the term, reflecting on such contemporary concerns as civil rights, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and the wars in Europe, Vietnam, and Iraq. Willimon provides a brief introduction to each sermon, commenting on the work and thought of the preacher. Diverse in subject and style, the sermons collected in this volume are a treasure for those who love fine preaching, a resource for those studying the history of homiletics, and a light to rekindle the memories of those who have worshiped in the Chapel over the years.

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Carter Heyward The Enigmatic God November 20 1977
193
Clarence G Newsome Righteous Anger August 27 1978
202
Howard Thurman The Gothic Principle January 21 1979
208
Leander Keck Seeing and Not Seeing October 21 1979
211
C Eric Lincoln Have You Been to Damascus? March 20 1983
218
Donald Macleod There Is a Point in Living November 13 1983
229
Louis Patrick The Ah of Wonder September 30 1984
235
John Vannorsdall Mainline Churches February 10 1985
241

D Elton Trueblood The Courage to Care February 14 1960
59
Robert E Cushman The Idea of a University January 29 1961
63
Martin Niemöller Human Weakness and Divine Strength February 24 1963
71
A Sermon on Learned Paralytics March 12 1967
76
Jürgen Moltmann Communion Meditation October 1 1967
81
Thomas A Langford Homecoming October 22 1967
86
Albert C Outler And So What Have You Done for Me Lately? December 10 1967
91
Thor Hall Thou Shalt Not Kill June 9 1968
98
Browne Barr Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep October 26 1969
104
Eduard Schweizer Gods HelplessnessOur Help April 12 1970
109
Edmund A Steimle Address Not Known March 7 1971
114
Clarence G Newsome and Howard C Wilkinson What Is Religion All about Anyway? A Dialogue Sermon September 5 1971
120
Myron S Augsburger The Christian in a Revolutionary Age September 26 1971
127
D Moody Smith Jr A Necessary Tension February 6 1972
138
John W Carlton The Generous Eye June 11 1972
143
Billy Graham Finding Answers September 23 1973
148
Letty Russell The Impossible Possibility March 31 1974
153
William Stringfellow The Wisdom of Being FoolishMay 10 1975
158
Ernest T Campbell Whats the Story? May 11 1975
166
W D Davies The Bible Today October 24 1976
172
Will Campbell That You Might Have Life January 23 1977
180
Carlyle Marney Not to Condemn Us April 17 1977
186
Walter Brueggemann SlogansAnd Hurts Underneath February 16 1985
246
Elizabeth Achtemeier Christmas Party December 15 1985
251
William Muehl It Matters Greatly February 23 1986
257
Thomas G Long Jesus Final Exam November 9 1986
264
Grady H Hardin God under Pressure March 8 1987
270
Peter Storey When the Cross Lays Hold on You September 18 1988
276
Fred Craddock November 5 1989
282
Richard Lischer I Have Seen the Future November 15 1992
288
Tony Campolo Children of the Kingdom February 13 1994
293
Carol Marie Noren Storm at Sea June 19 1994
304
Peter J Gomes An Impossible Ethic February 19 1995
309
Eberhard Bethge A Chief Text of the Church April 23 1995
316
David G Buttrick A Sermon at Duke University October 15 1995
322
Patrick M Clark Awaiting New Wine February 27 2000
326
L Gregory Jones We Do See Jesus October 8 2000
330
Ellen F Davis Stargazers January 5 2003
337
Fleming Rutledge The Enemy Lines Are Hard to Find March 16 200
342
Barbara Brown Taylor The Snake Savior March 30 2003
348
James A Forbes Jr The BestKept Secret in the BibleJune 8 2003
354
William H Willimon Confused yet Curious about JesusAugust 31 2003
362
Index to Scripture
369
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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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