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Walking to Emmaus / Eamon Duffy.
Van Pelt Library BX1756.D84 W35 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duffy, Eamon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Sermons.
- Catholic Church.
- Sermons, English--21st century.
- Sermons, English.
- Universities and colleges--Sermons.
- Universities and colleges.
- Genre:
- Sermons.
- Physical Description:
- 163 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Burns & Oates, 2006.
- Summary:
- Eamon Duffy is best known as an historian of the papacy, and of grass-roots religion in late medieval and Reformation England. But he is also a religious believer, concerned with the practical expression of Christian faith in the modern world. In a previous collection of essays, Faith of Our Fathers, he reflected on the relationship between change and permanence underlying the profound transformations of the Roman Catholic tradition since the Second Vatican Council. In this new book, made up of addresses delivered mostly to university congregations, he turns from the concerns of a particular denomination, to consider the light for living which the Christian message offers in a world where traditional certainties and values often seem in flux. These addresses are all, in one way or another, reflections on the central affirmations of the Christian faith, but they were addressed in most cases to congregations which included not only the religiously committed, but also many who would not describe themselves as believers at all.
- Contents:
- 1 Among the tombs 5
- 2 Let us now praise famous men 15
- 3 When I remember, I am afraid 30
- 4 The fish breakfast 41
- 5 Christianity and culture 51
- 6 On not quite starting again: Shrove Tuesday 61
- 7 The man in the crowd: Palm Sunday 73
- 8 Walking to Emmaus: Easter Day 79
- 9 A sermon for Ascension 87
- 10 A sermon for Christ the King 95
- 11 A sermon for St Mary Magdalene 105
- 12 The formidable finger: St John the Baptist 113
- 13 The terrible joys: St Valentine's Day 125
- 14 Heavenly Jerusalem 133
- 15 Light in the darkness 143
- 16 The God of History 153.
- ISBN:
- 0860124231
- OCLC:
- 70252876
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