Preaching to a World in Crisis: Sermons by Horton Davies

by Horton Davies, Marie-Helene Davies (Editor), Henry Bowden (Editor), Mellick Belshaw (Foreword by)

Overview

This second volume of sermons, appearing after Believing, is organized according to Davies's journey in time and space and his first-hand experience of the troubled world on three continents: Word War II in England and Germany, race relations in South Africa, and the need for Human Rights in America. In addition to history, literature, psychology, and lore, the sermons mainly use argumentation to console the heart and show the way to compassion and justice in the name of Christ.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498274913
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	02/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Horton Marlais Davies, formerly Professor at Princeton University, was a minister in Wallingford, London during the Blitz in World War II; he then founded the department of religion at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, around the time of apartheid; finally he came to America at the time of the Human Rights protests. He is the author of thirty-six books, including, Worship and Theology in England; Varieties of English Preaching, 1900-1960; The English Metaphysical Preachers, 1588-1645; and the co-authored French Huguenots in English Speaking Lands. His first book of sermons appeared under the title Believing.
The late Horton Davies was a professor at Princeton University, which exchanged courses with Princeton Theological Seminary. He held degrees in English from Edinburgh University and went on to study philosophy at Mansfield College, Oxford. He founded the department of religion at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, before returning to teach at Oxford and then at Princeton. He was the author of Worship and Theology in England, Varieties of English Preaching 1900-1960, Like Angels from a Cloud, and The English Metaphysical Preachers, 1588-1645.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction: Contexts for the Sermons 1

1 The Perils of Our Calling 25

Part One Preaching During World War II

2 Citizens of Two Kingdoms 31

3 Harvest Festival 35

4 The Shepherds, the Scientists, and Simeon 40

5 The Modernity of the Master 46

6 Absolute Loyalty 53

7 Let My People Go 57

8 The Persistence of Goodness in an Evil World 62

9 Modern Madness and the Cure of Christ 65

10 Nailing Our Colors to the Mast 70

11 Retrospect 76

12 Christianity in the Atomic Age 82

13 No Apologies 86

14 Eternal Life: Heaven and Hell 91

15 Christ and Individual Need (1) 97

16 Christ and Individual Need (2): Thou and They 100

Part Two Preaching in a World in Crisis (South Africa)

17 The Rightful Claims of Heaven and Earth 107

18 Resolution: A New Year Sermon, 1950 113

19 Race-Tensions in South Africa 117

20 Resurgam 131

Part Three Preaching in a World in Crisis (America)

21 Communion Devotion: The Realism of the Gospel 137

22 Dangerous Silence 141

23 The Threat of Secularism 146

24 The Gospel and the Reversal of Human Values 151

25 A Victorious Faith Conquering Prejudice 156

26 The World Church and Human Need 161

27 Protests, Profound, and Trivial 168

28 Hoping against Hope 175

Part Four Jesus: Monarch of Men

29 Jesus Baptized 183

30 Jesus the Evangelist 188

31 Jesus, Social Thinker 193

32 Jesus, Man of Prayer 198

33 Jesus Enthroned 203