When God Is Silent (Lyman Beecher Lectures, 1997.)

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“Reading of God’s silence within the Bible gives me courage to explore the practice of restraint in preaching―not as a deliberate withholding of God’s word nor, I am hoping, as a rationale for my own reticence, but as a sober reaching for more reverence within the act of public speaking about God.”

In these 1997 Lyman Beecher Lectures in Preaching delivered at Yale Divinity School, Barbara Brown Taylor specializes in the task of folks who preach and people who hear sermons in a world where people thirst for a word from God. How might we approach this seemingly silent God with due respect, proclaiming the Word without violating the silence, by speaking with restraint?

Her first chapter examines the late twentieth-century language with which we talk about God in theology and speak to God in prayer. The second one chapter addresses the question of God’s communication in Scripture and how the “voice of God” used to be heard less and not more within the land as the centuries progressed. In spite of everything, Taylor explores what the silence of God means for Christians and how we might exercise “homiletical restraint” in speaking of the divine.

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