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American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr. (Library of America)
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by Various and Michael Warner
Sales Rank: 411551
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Discount: 27 %
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 939 pages
Published by: Library of America March 1, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1883011655
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1883011659
Book Dimensions:
8.1 x 5.3 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Product Review
Whether it take the form of the formal prose of the Puritans, the clear, plain-spoken wisdom of the Quakers, or the improvisational style of African American folk preaching, the sermon is one of America's most unique types of literature. While this collection should never be considered easy reading, its high quality and profundity more than compensate for its challenges. In fact, this collection (spanning the 17th through the 20th centuries) is packed with literary and historical gems. Absalom Jones, an African Episcopal minister, preaches a heart-wrenching sermon that sings the praises of the end of the slave trade in 1808. Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers "The Lord's Supper Sermon," and, of course, there's Martin Luther King's most famous sermon, "I've Been to the Mountaintop."
Newsweek magazine called this "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history." This may be an exaggeration; nonetheless the book is certainly a worthy project, if only for its recognition of the sermon as a legitimate and stirring genre of American literature. --Gail Hudson
From Library Journal
Library of Americas latest tome rounds up in chronological order 58 sermons, from Robert Cushmans address to the colony of Plimmoth in New England in 1621 to Kings 1968 Ive been to the mountaintop speech. This also includes biographical notes and notes on the texts.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Reader Reviews
I'm not really sure what attracted me to this book, perhaps it was an attempt to learn from influential theologians, perhaps it was a desire to learn from past religious periods. In any event, this book is not really all that spectacular. The sermons presented are lengthy and have no real mass appeal. Who selected them and why is never disclosed. They have no cohesiveness and seem randomly compiled. In other words, this book was a disappointment to me.
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