The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin, Volume One: The Riverside Years

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Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2008 M05 30 - 597 pages
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Comprising the sermons preached by William Sloane Coffin while he was senior minister at the prestigious Riverside Church in New York City, The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years captures the renowned preacher and social activist at work: ministering to American hostages in Iran, supporting AIDS awareness, and rallying his audiences to battle poverty and nuclear proliferation--all the while celebrating marriages, baptisms, and Mother's Days and mourning the loss of loved ones, including his own son.

In each of these brilliant and painstakingly crafted sermons, Coffin combined his deep love of Scripture and passionate commitment to peace and justice with his unparalleled gift for the spoken word. While also revealing the personal and pastoral dimensions of his ministry, each sermon provides a powerful example of Coffin's well-accomplished mission: to challenge the conscience of a nation.

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Page 15
I can't recall the exact spot , but somewhere in the writings of Kazantzakis , he
describes a dream that disturbs the sleep of the old monk , Father Joachim . In
the dream a troubled Mary brings her 12year - old Jesus to him for help . “ What's
the ...
Page 167
He can't affirm the world , any more than he can affirm God . Pain to him is not
something that can be integrated , or bemoaned , or consoled . No , pain is only
something that can be denounced . If the only God I could believe in was the God
of ...
Page 268
What holds all of us back is of course self - love , a survival instinct without which ,
initially at least , we probably couldn't survive . But we can't live — that is , we can'
t love — until we get beyond survival . For only he who loses his life will find it .

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Contents

The Spirit of Power and Love
3
A World Fit for Children
10
A Sign That Is Spoken Against
18
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

William Sloane Coffin served as chaplain of Yale University and Williams College, was senior minister of Riverside Church, and is President Emeritus of SANE/FREEZE: Campaign for Global Security. He became famous while at Yale in the 1960s for his opposition to the Vietnam War. He was jailed as a civil rights Freedom Rider, indicted by the U.S. government in the Benjamin Spock conspiracy trial, and has been immortalized as Rev. Sloan in the Doonesbury comic strip. Both Union Theological Seminary in New York and Yale University have established scholarships in his honor.Included in his works are Credo and A Passion for the Possible, both available from WJK.

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TitleThe Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin, Volume One: The Riverside Years
Volume 1 of The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years, William Sloane Coffin, ISBN 0664233007, 9780664233006
AuthorWilliam Sloane Coffin
Editionillustrated
PublisherPresbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2008
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized15 Jul 2009
ISBN0664232442, 9780664232443
Length597 pages
  
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