Sermons for the Christian year / John Keble ; selected and introduced by Maria Poggi Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keble, John, 1792-1866.

Contributor:

Johnson, Maria Poggi.

Charlton Yarnall Fund.

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church of England--Sermons.

Church of England.

Church year sermons.

Sermons, English--19th century.

Sermons, English.

Genre:

Sermons.

Physical Description:

xi, 208 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, [2004]

Summary:

John Keble (1792-1866) was a professor at the University of Oxford before he turned to pastoral work in the country parish of Hursley in Hampshire, England. Over the course of his career, he became a friend and colleague of John Henry Newman and an influential nineteenth-century British figure. His famous sermon "National Apostasy" heralded the start of the Oxford Movement, which rediscovered the Catholic roots of Anglicanism. This volume -- the only book of its kind -- gathers twenty-four of Keble's best sermons spanning the liturgical year. Read as historical documents, these select homilies reveal the central preoccupations of Keble's intellectual life, including his high sacramental theology and ecclesiology. But these works are also marked by the acute pastoral sense that made Keble beloved in his own day, and by his passionate desire that even the simplest of believers understand and embrace the life of Christian holiness. A substantial introductory essay by Maria Poggi Johnson sets Keble's sermons in the context of Victorian religion, outlines the main themes of his thought, and suggests ways in which Keble's homilies are relevant to contemporary Christians and students of religion.

Contents:

1. Conscience, an Earnest of the Last Judgment 37

2. Our Lord among Us, though We Know Him Not 47

3. The Mystery of Christ's Birth, and of Our New Birth 54

4. Self-denial, a Main Lesson of the Gospel 62

5. The First and Second Creation of Man 68

6. Peril of Half-heartedness 75

7. The Unchangeable Priesthood of Christ 82

8. Christ's Own Preparation for His Passion 89

9. Old Testament Types of the Cross: The Rod of Moses 97

10. The World's Conduct to the Man of Sorrows 103

11. The Holy Women at the Sepulcher 111

12. The Sight of God Incarnate 118

13. The Faith That Overcometh 125

14. The Drawing of Jesus by His Ascension 132

15. Baptism with the Holy Ghost 137

16. The Holiness of God, towards Us and in Us 145

17. Christian Courage 152

18. The True Riches 159

19. Christian Forbearance 165

20. The Law of Liberty 172

21. Entire Self-surrender and Humility, Lessons of the Incarnation 179

22. The Name of God Put on Us in Our Baptism 186

23. The Holy Eucharist the Crown and Center of Christian Worship 192

24. The Church Apostolic 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charlton Yarnall Fund.

ISBN:

0802822991

9780802822994

OCLC:

54806116