Sermons from the National Cathedral: Soundings for the Journey
382Sermons from the National Cathedral: Soundings for the Journey
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Overview
In Sermons from the National Cathedral, Dean Lloyd provides a compelling vision of an intellectually alive, publicly engaged Christian faith, a vision of the Christian life rooted in ancient teaching. Readers will find the sermons engaging and appreciate that Dean Lloyd takes seriously the experiences of doubt and searching that are so much a part of the modern religious experience of our time. He successfully demonstrates the positive role faith can play in public life and addresses the questions and challenges faith must face in the twenty-first century.
These soundings, as Lloyd calls them, illumine the full spectrum of Christian belief while also addressing such issues as the difficulty of faith, the relationship between science and faith, the mystery of suffering, the necessity of forgiveness, the meaning of the cross, the urgency of reconciliation, and the call to care for the earth. These reflections will appeal to traditional Christians seeking spiritual enrichment and are accessible to those seeking answers to how their faith fits into our modern world.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781442222847 |
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Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
Publication date: | 04/04/2013 |
Pages: | 382 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d) |
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Table of Contents
ForewordPrefaceIntroductionBook One – Reflections on FaithGod We Can TrustFollow MeThe Calling of HolinessCostly DiscipleshipWill You Dance?Commanded to LoveWhen God Throws a BrickFollowing an Elusive LordHaggling PrayerDoes God Care?The Silence of GodGod, Science, and the Life of FaithThe Night VisitorThe Miracle of ForgivenessHoly LaughterTrusting Against the EvidenceGraceBook Two -Events and IssuesCathedral Life A Voice, A Place, A PeopleAn Unfinished CathedralPresidential InaugurationA New CommunityAnniversary of 9/11Doubts and LovesPlace of ReconciliationThe Far Side of RevengeReligious DiversityThe Spirit of UnderstandingA Big Enough HouseRace and PovertyIn Thanksgiving for Dorothy HeightAn Extremist for LoveBlack and White on the Road to EmmausMind the GapEarth DayTo Save This Fragile EarthIndependence dayA Humble PatriotismThanksgivingA Thankful HeartGiving Thanks in All ThingsBook Three - Church YearAdventWaitingMaking Room for GodMary Said YesChristmasGod Comes InThe Birth of the Messiah The PlungeEpiphanyThe Magi and UsBelovedLentThe Truth of Ash Wednesday The Joy of Ash WednesdayGoing for BrokePalm SundayLove So AmazingStrange Fruit Good FridayWhat A Way to Run A Universe Staring Into the DarkEasterDeath Be Not Proud NeverthelessAscensionChrist Has Gone Up PentecostThe Spirit of LifeOrdinary TimeThe Trinity and the Nearness of God Who Do You Say That I Am?All Saints The Real ThingThe Communion of SaintsWhat People are Saying About This
This collection of Samuel T. Lloyd III’s sermons from the National Cathedral provide a clear voice of a “generous-spirited Christianity” (immediate and accessible) which is deeply needed in this new century. He sees the heart of the gospel as the gift and call to be fully human and he preaches not only with grace, but with a canny sense of the struggles of the age. His is a stealth radicalism of compassion, which comes in under the radar, often catching the reader unawares with its clarity and challenge, with its bite and risk.
These sermons are the product of a literary and generous imagination combining intellectual rigor with simple charity in assuring his readers of the abiding goodness at the heart of things. It’s as if he’s saying over and over again, “Don’t lose heart!” Good news in a time when the heart seems to have been knocked out of things. And what is at the heart of these sermons? A sense of the sacred, and affirmation of the holy, an affirmation of hope in a time when many fear, with the poet Philip Larkin, that, in the end, there is “no sight, no sound,?/No touch or taste or smell, /nothing to think with,?/Nothing to love or link with.” Lloyd preaches Good news.