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American Sermons (LOA #108) : The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr by Michael Warner (1999, Hardcover)

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The sermon is the first and most enduring genre of American literature. At the center of the Puritan experience, it continued in succeeding centuries to play a vital role--as public ritual, occasion for passion and reflection, and, not least, popular entertainment. The fifty-eight sermons collected in this volume display the form's eloquence, intellectual rigor, and spiritual fervor. Ranging from the first New England settlements to mass-media evangelism and the civil rights movement in the 1960s, these texts reclaim a neglected American tradition. The Puritan sermons with which the volume opens are extraordinary in their richness of imagery, force of argument, and probing psychological insight. From John Winthrop's visionary injunction that "wee must consider that wee shall be as a citty upon a Hill," to Samuel Danforth's admonition not to deviate from the divine "errand into the wilderness," these seventeenth-century works first explored what it means to be an American. Jonathan Edwards's remarkable "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," which stirred its eighteenth-century audiences to frenzy, shows the intensity to which the sermon could rise, while Jonathan Mayhew's "Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission" heralds the political thinking that led to the American Revolution. The ferment of the nineteenth century--the Mexican War, the struggle against slavery, the Civil War--inevitably affected the sermon. Orthodoxies were challenged, and a new diversity emerged in the Unitarianism of William Ellery Channing, the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the new Church of Latter Day Saints, and the gathering strength of the African-American sermon tradition. The twentieth-century sermons collected here continue to wrestle with fundamental spiritual and civic concerns. They range from a homily on charity by the popular evangelist Billy Sunday to a discourse on interfaith cooperation by Abraham Joshua Heschel, and from Harry Emerson Fosdick's controversial "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?" to John Gresham Machen's uncompromising riposte. The achievement of the African-American sermon attains a new breadth of influence in the inspiring oratory of Martin Luther King Jr. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1883011655
ISBN-13
9781883011659
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209929

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Book Title
American Sermons (Loa #108) : the Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr
Author
Michael Warner
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Sermons / General, Sermons / Christian, American / General, Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Religion, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
939 Pages

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Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Age Range
18
Lc Classification Number
Bv4241.A514 1999
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Volume Number
Vol. 108
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
98-034295
Dewey Decimal
252
Dewey Edition
21

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by fluffylarue13Dec 01, 2021
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American Sermons is a treasure and very worthy of having gotten funding for its publication. Sermons from our beginnings as newly landed from Europe thru Martin Luther King are wonderfully interesting. Some sermons impress thru a kind of poetry, some thru their passion, some impressive debate of a social or moral Issue, but all of historical interest. I bought three total…myself, our Episcopal priest, and a friend who likes historical literature.
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