A Voice From the Crowd (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

George Wharton Pepper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331705606 ISBN 13: 9781331705604

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

One voice from the crowd offers a clear, thoughtful take on preaching, faith, and the modern church.

This book frames preaching as a responsibility shared by both clergy and laypeople, exploring how Christian teaching shapes everyday life in America. Through reflective essays and practical questions, it invites readers to consider what it means to live out faith in a diverse, often doubtful culture. In these pages, you’ll encounter a lay perspective on topics such as the role of the preacher, the reach of religious instruction, and the tension between secular education and Christian belief. The author weighs real-world issues—how religion intersects with schools, universities, and public life—without abandoning the core aims of faith and community.

• Thoughtful examination of preaching and its reception by lay audiences
• Questions about education, religion, and public life in America
• Practical reflections on prayer, discipline, and spiritual practice
• A nuanced look at church life, church members, and the relationship between clergy and laypeople

Ideal for readers of religious history, parish life, and thoughtful reflections on faith in a pluralistic society.

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Excerpt from A Voice From the Crowd

In raising my voice I cannot better state my aim than in the words of a devout Roman Catholic lay man. In the preface of his book, The Mystical Ele ment in Religion, Baron Friedrich von Hiigel writes as follows: The following book would condemn itself to pompous unreality were it to mimic official caution and emphasis, whilst ever unable to achieve official authority. It prefers to aim at a layman's special virtues and function; complete candor, cour age, sensitiveness to the present and future, in their obscurer strivings toward the good and true, as these have been in their substance already tested in the past, and in so far as such strivings can be forecasted by sympathy and hope. And I thus trust that the book may turn out to be as truly Catholic in fact, as it has been Catholic in intention.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331705606
• ISBN 13: 9781331705604
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 223