Charles Kingsley: Sermons for the Times, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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CONTENTS

Sermon I Fathers and Children
Sermon II Salvation
Sermon III A Good Conscience
Sermon IV Names
Sermon V Sponsorship
Sermon VI Justification by Faith
Sermon VII Duty and Superstition
Sermon VIII Sonship
Sermon IX The Lord's Prayer
Sermon XI The Doxology
Sermon XII Ahab and Naboth
Sermon XIII The Light of God
Sermon XIV Providence
Sermon XV England's Strength
Sermon XVI The Life of God
Sermon XVII God's Offspring
Sermon XVIII Death in Life
Sermon XIX Shame
Sermon XX Forgiveness
Sermon XXI The True Gentleman
Sermon XXII Toleration
Sermon XXIII Public Spirit

About the author:

Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 - 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms.

Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho! led to the founding of a village by the same name (the only place name in England with an exclamation mark) and inspired the construction of the Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway. A hotel in Westward Ho! was named after and opened by him. A hotel which was opened in 1897 in Bloomsbury, London, and named after Kingsley was founded by teetotallers, who admired Kingsley for his political views and his ideas on social reform. It still exists as The Kingsley by Thistle.

Kingsley School, a private school in Bideford, the town in which Westward Ho! is set, took its name from him after it was founded in 2009 as a merger of Edgehill College and Grenville College.

In 1905, the composer Cyril Rootham wrote a musical setting of Kingsley's poem Andromeda. This was performed at the Bristol Music Festival in 1908. Like Kingsley, Rootham had been educated at Bristol Gra