Christ and the Meaning of Life: A Book of Sermons and Meditations

by Helmut Thielicke

Overview

In this series of sermons, first delivered over radio and television in Germany during the 1960s, Helmut Thielicke wrote about the true meaning of Christian festivals such as Good Friday, Easter and Pentecost. He saw deeply into the mystery, despair, and confusion of life in his time and spoke a truly prophetic word to Christians that still resonates today. As Thielicke meditates on Christmas, the reader will understand anew how light shines in the darkness of this world. As he preaches about Christ's suffering on the cross, humanity's suffering is given meaning; and, in talking of death, he gives us encouragement to live in hope. Christ and the Meaning of Life explores subjects as far apart from each other - and as close together - as rehabilitation and retribution, beauty and terror, and love and brutality. Here Thielicke faces the fearsome questions that plague humanity and brings the Christian Gospel to bear on each of them with a clarity and persuasiveness that echoes in these troubled times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780718894535
Publisher:	The Lutterworth Press
Publication date:	11/29/2016
Series:	Thielicke Library
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x (d)

About the Author

Helmut Thielicke first came to prominence as a German Lutheran minister during the last days of the Second World War in Stuttgart. In the face of bombing raids and Nazi opposition, Thielicke carried on preaching to a congregation of thousands. After the war was over, he joined the faculty of the University of Tübingen as Rector and Professor of Systematic Theology, later becoming the Rector of the University of Hamburg. During this time, he also became a world traveller, lecturing and preaching in the United States, South Africa, Australia and Latin America. He died in Hamburg in 1986.

Table of Contents

Translator's Note

1. World History and World Judgement
2. Jesus Christ in the Front-Line Trenches
3. The Reflection in a Dark Glass
4. The Festival of Light
5. Time and Eternity
6. Death and Life
7. The Supreme Love
8. The Cry of Dereliction
9. An Easter Stroll
10. Living by the Resurrection
11. The Miracle of the Spirit
12. The Parable of the Treasure in the Field and the Pearl of Great Price
13. The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant
14. The Parable of the Importunate Widow
15. The Meaning of Life
16. Our Prayers
17. Who am I?
18. How to Love Your Neighbour
19. What Does It Mean to Trust
20. Faith and the Philosophies
21. On Being Afraid of Life
22. Is Technology Diabolical?
23. Our Freedom and Our Free Time
24. The Origin of Man
25. What Does It Mean to Take God Seriously?
26. The Animals
27. Theme Number 1 in Our Preaching
28. The Joy of Repentance