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After exploring several aspects of the craft of homily, How to
Listen to a Sermon explains how listening to a sermon is different
from attending to other forms of public address. This view
presupposes a distinctive understanding of the sermonic or
preaching event and this is illustrated by two homiletical
assemblies -- for "ordinary time" and for "extraordinary times."
These sermons exemplify the author's concern that public religious
speech be done with care and with scholarly attention to biblical
texts. These anthologies are framed autobiographically with
"Honoring the Gospel" at the beginning, and with "Living an
Epiphany" at the end.
This book addresses controversial issues in contemporary church
life using liturgical commentary, homiletical illustration, and
theological reflection. Issues examined include: gender and
sexuality, relation of lay and ordained ministries, the relation of
biblical Israel and the modern state, the differences between the
Hebrew Scriptures and the Old Testament, the need for careful
expository preaching, and deference to tradition as well as
openness to new ways. The focus here is on the Episcopal Church in
America, yet the examples and pleadings have relevance to the wider
Christian community.
The origin, basic texts, central affirmations, and life-policy
proposals of the Christian tradition are more ambiguous than either
Christianity's critics or advocates often acknowledge. When the
tradition is examined through the lens of ambiguity, certain
elements appear to be both less threatening and more inviting than
previously thought. Through a Glass Darkly considers how one might
grant authority to the biblical texts without regarding them as
inerrant or infallibly true. In detailed chapters, this work
investigates the ambiguous way in which the tradition construes the
life and work of Jesus of Nazareth as both fully human and divine;
and how Jesus' special relationship with Mary Magdalene and "the
Beloved Disciple" point to a life-enhancing picture of eros
modulated in terms of friendship. Taking the ambiguity of the
Christian tradition with utmost seriousness can make faith more
honest, criticism and defense of the tradition more properly
focused, relationships in a religiously plural world more humane,
and the daily lives of women and men less fearful.
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