Comments on: Historical re-enactment

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:46:26 +0000

Bill — I’ve been looking back at the sermons preached here in New Bedford, and the sermons from the 30′s and 40′s are still very compelling — whereas sermons from the 50′s are somewhat complacent, and sermons from the 60′s and 70′s tended to degenerate into third-rate political polemics. Some of the sermons from the 40′s seem to be direct responses to the challenges of the neo-orthodox theologians, and I’ve been thinking seriously about re-preaching some of them (e.g., a sermon titled “Jesus the Man” preached here by Duncan Howlett).

Then, too, part of it depends on who was the preacher in a given congregation in a given decade. Your congregation had Charles Lyttle through the 50′s up to 1964. I’d love to hear any one of his sermons preached again.

Did you have any specific ideas about which 50′s and 60′s sermons (or which preacher’s sermons) should be preached?

By: Bill Baar

Bill Baar — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:30:30 +0000

This really needs to be done with sermons from the 50s and 60s.

Those were the critical decades for Liberalism and I think we need to hear those words again to understand what’s endured, what hasn’t, and what should be reclaimed.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:45:30 +0000

Parslife — Yes, the sermons are online, but those texts are exact transcriptions of Emerson’s manuscripts, including deletions, marginalia, etc. — they do not make for particularly easy reading. As one who has tried reading both, I promise that you’ll find it much easier to read the sermons if you can find a library that has the four-volume Complete Sermons books.

By: Parslife

Parslife — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:28:04 +0000

Ah, but all the sermons are available online!

http://www.emersonsermons.com

The actual sermon links need to be updated, but that will be done soon.