The God We Proclaim
Sermons on the Apostles' Creed
Published on 19. December 2017
78 pages
978-1-4982-9346-4 (ISBN)
Description
Throughout history, Christians have found the summary of their faith in the three ancient creeds. The God We Proclaim explores that faith as it is found in the shortest of them: the Apostles' Creed. The contributors are among Britain's foremost Christian communicators and teachers.
Written with an infectious enthusiasm for theology, The God We Proclaim is ideal for anyone seeking to understand the Christian faith, either individually, or in a church or student study group. It is based on a set of sermons delivered in the chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge, which surveyed the foundations of Christianity.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) wrote in her essay "The Dogma is the Drama" that people assume that if churches are empty it is because preachers "insist too much upon doctrine," or "dull dogma" as they disapprovingly call it. Sayers knew that the opposite is true. "It is the neglect of dogma that makes for dullness. The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man--and the dogma is the drama."
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John Hughes was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and the dean of the college chapel until his death in 2014 at the age of thirty-five. Widely regarded as one of the principal theological minds of his generation, he was the author of The End of Work (2007). His collected essays have been published as Graced Life: The Writings of John Hughes, edited by Matthew Bullimore (2016).
Andrew Davison is the Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Corpus Christi College, and the Canon Philosopher of St. Albans Cathedral. He is the author of several books, including Why Sacraments? (2013), The Love of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy for Theologians (2013), and Blessing (2014), and the editor of Imaginative Apologetics (2011).
Andrew Davison is the Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Corpus Christi College, and the Canon Philosopher of St. Albans Cathedral. He is the author of several books, including Why Sacraments? (2013), The Love of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy for Theologians (2013), and Blessing (2014), and the editor of Imaginative Apologetics (2011).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Foreword: Believing
- Introduction: John Mark Hughes (1978-2014)
- List of Contributors
- Chapter 1: "I believe . . ."
- Chapter 2: "In God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth"
- Chapter 3: "And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord"
- Chapter 4: "Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary"
- Chapter 5: "Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried"
- Chapter 6: "He descended into hell
- The third day he rose again from the dead"
- Chapter 7: "He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty
- from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead"
- Chapter 8: "I believe in the Holy Ghost"
- Chapter 9: "The holy Catholic Church, The Communion of Saints"
- Chapter 10: "The Forgiveness of sins, The Resurrection of the body, And the Life everlasting. Amen."
