Word: sermonic
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...order to get this serious instruction, the student must shop around in sundry departments. Dean Sperry asserted in a Memorial Church sermon last March. "He must put together such pieces of the puzzle as he picks up on this expedition," he said, "through such departments as history, literature, philosophy, and Semitic languages." Comparison shows that an undergraduate can get a better education in religion at Yale, Princeton, Columbia, or Chicago. There are certain elementary Divinity School courses offered by the School faculty, which also belongs to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; but undergraduates usually find them too advanced...
There was never much doubt about what the Lord intended for Henry Sloane Coffin. As a youngster in New York City, he used a shawl-draped set of kitchen steps for a pulpit from which to deliver a high-pitched sermon to his lawyer-father and family. From such beginnings came the clear, hard-hitting style of preaching that eventually helped to multiply attendance at his fashionable Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church from 1905 to 1926. Under his liberal leadership (1926-45), Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary moved up to top rank among U.S. divinity schools. When the Presbyterian Board...
Pink-cheeked and apparently free from all bourgeois academic worries, the Puritans preached a Thoreauesque "take to the woods and fields" sermon in between numbers. The squirrels agreed...
...Peter, and a chatty bit of gossip from Mary Magdalene to the King of the Burgundians. All were written in contemporary French . . . which . . . certainly . . . made it easier for [the purchaser] to read them. . . . Lucas was on the point of selling him the original manuscript-in French-of the Sermon on the Mount . . . when he was unmasked...
...other bells, not just the eight played on ordinary days, but special bells like San Pedro, San Antonio. Then he silences them, each in turn, until only Santo Angel de la Guarda, sweetest-toned of all, tolls softly, a sign that down below in the cathedral the sermon is being preached. At the Gloria, he swings up his arms and all 18 bells peal out. José, the bellringer, stands on tiptoes, his fists thrust toward the sky, pure ecstasy on his face...