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Название: Luminescence, Volume 2

Автор: C. K. Barrett

Издательство: Ingram

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      LUMINESCENCE

      The Sermons of C.K. and Fred Barrett

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      —Volume Two—

      Edited by Ben Witherington, III

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      LUMINESCENCE

      The Sermons of C. K. and Fred Barrett

      Volume Two

      Copyright © 2017 Ben Witherington III. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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      paperback isbn: 978-1-5326-1665-5

      hardcover isbn: 978-1-4982-4054-3

      ebook isbn: 978-1-4982-4053-6

      Cataloging-in-Publication data:

      Names: Barrett, C. K. (Charles Kingsley) | Barrett, Fred | Witherington, Ben, III (editor)

      Title: Luminescence : the sermons of C.K. and Fred Barrett, volume two / edited by Ben Witherington III.

      Description: Eugene, OR : Cascade Books, 2017 | Includes bibliographical references.

      Identifiers: ISBN 978-1-5326-1665-5 (paperback) | ISBN 978-1-4982-4054-3 (hardcover) | ISBN 978-1-4982-4053-6 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCSH: Barrett, C. K. (Charles Kingsley), 1917–2011 | Barrett, Fred. | Sermons, English—20th century.

      Classification: LCC BS491.5 B5 2017 (print) | LCC BS491.5 (ebook)

      Manufactured in the U.S.A.

      INTRODUCTION

      But as it turns out, this was a minority of his ministry. He had been pastoring and preaching up until he was called to Durham in the mid-40s, and he continued to preach a lot during his academic years at Durham, and for almost thirty years after he finished teaching full time he was continually involved in preaching and circuit work. Yes, he continued to write scholarly books, and yes he continued to lecture hither and yon all over the world, but you can tell that his heart had been and always was in preaching. It was his first love, and he never gave it up, never turned his back on it. In fact, to judge from the content of these many sermons, Kingsley was the preacher of choice for many of these chapels during the high holy days of the Christian year— Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost. There are so many, many sermons from those seasons in the Church calendar, and for special days too like Trinity Sunday or Reformation Sunday. This love for preaching, and great appreciation of Kingsley’s preaching led to some interesting choices.

      When I became the senior editor of the New Cambridge Bible Commentary series in the early 1990s, I wrote Kingsley about contributing the volume on Galatians for the series. It was after all the one Pauline epistle from the so-called Hauptbriefe, the main indisputably Pauline letters, that he had long considered writing a commentary on. After a long silence, he finally wrote me back and said that though he was tempted, he had not kept up with the scholarship on Galatians as would be required to take on such a task, and besides, he needed to finish his work on Acts for the ICC series. What he did not say, but could have said was “and besides I’m still out on the circuit almost every single week and still writing a myriad of new sermons.” You will find many of those later sermons, as well as many earlier ones, in this collection focusing on his sermons on the Epistles, Revelation, and on the Old Testament as well.

      Kingsley’s preaching is thematic in character and he is always talking about “digging” things out of the text—facts, theological ideas, ethical ideas, consequences of all these things. He clearly believes that if you just preach what is on the surface of the text you will be truly skimming, it will be superficial at best. Detailed study of the text first is required before preaching the text. He is often drawn to puzzles in the Biblical texts, hard sayings, problematic pronouncements, not because he delights in pointing out problems in the Bible, but because he assumes these texts make some good sense, and he wants to “dig” out what that sense may be. He is also drawn to texts that challenge him personally, though some like Isaiah 53 he mostly shied away from until near the end of his preaching career, because, as he says in the sermon on Isa 53.4, it has such depth and scope that one could not do justice to it in a single sermon. It is as if he needed to preach the text to himself first, before proclaiming it to others. In this he is unmistakably following Wesley СКАЧАТЬ