God, Christ and Us
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780826480415
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 01/11/2005
Width: 12.9 cm
Height: 19.8 cm
After the considerable success of "God Still Matters" by Herbert McCabe, here is a more popular collection of his spiritual writings, sermons and addresses. They can be compared to the addresses of the great preachers of this century in English - Leslie Weatherhead, Dean Inge, Donald Soper and H.A. Williams. Published for the first time, here is a collection of Herbert McCabe's more popular spiritual writings. McCabe was highly regarded as a writer on philosophy and theology but in true Dominican tradition (the Order of Preachers) he was also a brilliant preacher. He always preached in a lively and witty way - his style has been compared to that of G.K. Chesterton. Here is a collection of his sermons and spiritual addresses. Never platitudinous or short of ideas, these chapters are filled with questions, arguments and solid intellectual content. The major influence on McCabe was the Bible but he was also a devoted admirer of the thought of St Thomas Aquinas, whose ideas saturated his public speaking. From the Bible, McCabe derived the notion of God leading us to happiness through the work of grace and through the life and teachings of Jesus.
From Aquinas, McCabe derived a hatred of idolatry, a powerful sense of the incomprehensibility of God and recognition that we depend on God's gracious revelation of himself rather that what we can work out on the basis of our limited understanding. A presiding theme in this book is that we are saved because of the life of someone fully human. This new book by Herbert McCabe communicates the essence of the Gospel in an original and compelling way. It can therefore be mentioned in the same breath as works by Dean Inge, Donald Soper, H.A. Williams and Leslie Weatherhead.
Introduction; 1. Faith; 2. Hope; 3. Motorways and God; 4. 'Felix Culpa'; 5. Abraham and Isaac; 6. Jesus and the Sons of Zebedee; 7. Jesus and Sanctity; 8. Poverty and God; 9. Possession and Forgiveness; 10. Sin; 11. Self-Love; 12. Ash Wednesday; 13. The Wedding Feast at Cana; 14. Washing and Eucharist; 15. Easter; 16. Resurrection as Epiphany; 17. Ghosts, Burial and Resurrection; 18. Prayer; 19. Trinity; 20. The Forgiveness of God; 21. Render to Caesar; 22. Mammon and Thanksgiving; 23. Transfiguration; 24. Life after Death; 25. Priesthood; 26. Christian Unity.
"'An irresistibly direct, earthy no-nonsense refresher course in Christian Faith as such...A brilliantly unususal guide to Christianand (in the fullest sense) Catholic reality, accessible to practically an reader.' Archbishop Rowan Williams"