Tongues of Angels, Tongues of Men

by Thornton, John F.

• ISBN13: 9780385488938
• ISBN10: 0385488939
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Image Books

Summary

"Tongues of Angels, Tongues of Men" is a readable, inviting one-volume collection of the world's great sermons from the Judeo-Christian tradition. Resonant with promise, here are the speeches that have echoed down the centuries. From The Sermon on the Mount to Savonarola's attack on Renaissance Florence's excesses, from the anti-Nazi preaching of Bonhoeffer to C. S. Lewis's sermon on membership of the Christian Church and its meaning, there is no issue or dilemma the pulpit has not addressed.

This engaging collection combines a myriad of topics, individuals, eras, and controversies to achieve a balance of the human, the moral, and the theological. Jewish readers will be moved by the Hasidic exhortation to faith and joy, and Christian readers will appreciate the pulpit's use as a forum for debate.

Edited, annotated, and abridged by two experts, here are nearly one hundred famed sermons from preachers as diverse as Paul, Augustine, Benedict, Cure d'Ars, John Donne, Hildegard of Bingen, Girolamo Savonarola, Martin Luther, Meister Eckhart, John Henry Newman, Co