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The Preaching Life (Paperback, New)
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The Preaching Life (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R573
Discovery Miles 5 730
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In her bestselling preaching autobiography Barbara Brown Taylor
writes of how she came to be a preacher of the gospel as a priest
in the Episcopal Church. In this warm and poignant collection,
Barbara Brown Taylor's humor and wisdom delve into the meaning of
Christian symbols and history-both her own, growing up in the
Mid-West and Georgia, and the Church's, from its earliest
beginnings in the Near East. Seamlessly, Taylor weaves together
reflections on her vocation with the long-standing struggles of the
Church to hear, respond, and remain faithful to its mission of holy
love. She moves effortlessly from reflection to homily, concluding
the volume with thirteen sermons illustrative of the answered call.
This rich meeting of memoir, theology, and sermon stands at the
center of Taylor's work, bringing into one book the origins and the
vision of her remarkable preaching life. But her voice is not
sentimental. Instead, Taylor explores Christian meanings and
histories in order to hear and speak, in the present, for God. "God
has given us good news in human form and has given us the grace to
proclaim it," she writes, "but part of our terrible freedom is the
freedom to lose our voices, to forget where we were going and why.
While that knowledge does not yet strike me as prophetic, it does
keep me from taking both my ministry and the ministry of the whole
church for granted." This book on the calling to preach is itself a
call to reawaken to the activating presence of God. "Because I am a
preacher, it is through a preacher's eyes that I see. . . , but
because I am a baptized Christian too, it is from that perspective
I write. Either way, my job remains the same: to proclaim the good
news of God in Christ and to celebrate the sacraments of God's
presence in the world. Those two jobs are described as clearly in
the baptismal vows as they are in the ordination vows, which give
all Christians a common vocation." -from Chapter One
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