Life Can Begin Again By Helmut Thielicke A collection of inspirational addresses taking their themes from the Sermon on the Mount, showing how the Sermon cannot be understood without seeing it in the context of the person and work of Christ. ISBN-13: 9780227678541 Specifications: 216x138mm, 215pp, Paperback Price: £9.99 • US$22.50 Publication: July 1966 Order this Title Now

About this Book

Christians have always turned to the Sermon on the Mount for inspiration. In Life Can Begin Again, Helmut Thielicke, himself one of the great preachers of the 20th Century, comes to grips with what is often seen as a collection of lovely, but impossible ideals.

Thielicke makes it clear that the Sermon on the Mount can never be understood if, even for a moment, we forget the person of the Preacher of the Sermon. For without the person and the work of Jesus Christ, the marvellous words of the Beatitudes and the injunctions that follow them are the most radical and devastating distillation of God's claims that can be conceived; they leave us in utter, hopeless dismay. Only 'in Christ' do these words of the law become the glorious gospel that promises a new life.

Here is not only great preaching on some of the most urgent and sublime themes, but great tenderness and compassion too. As in so many of his works, Thielicke brings the profundities of Biblical religion alive for the modern era.

About the Author

Helmut Thielicke is one of the most outstanding preachers and theologians of the German Lutheran Church. Dismissed by the Nazi regime from his post of Professor of Theology at Heidelberg in 1940, he came to prominence in Stuttgart where, during the worst of the bombing raids and in spite of continuing Nazi opposition, he continued to preach to a congregation of several thousand each week. After the war he served as professor and Rector at the University of Tubingen until 1954, when he accepted the post of Rector at the University of Hamburg, the first Protestant theologian to hold this position. He died in 1986.

Other titles available by Helmut Thielicke:
Between Heaven and Earth (Hardback Edition)
Between Heaven and Earth (Paperback Edition)
Christ and the Meaning of Life
Encounter with Spurgeon
The Ethics of Sex
How the World Began: Sermons on the Creation Story
Man in God's World
Notes From a Wayfarer
The Prayer that Spans the World
The Waiting Father: Sermons on the Parables of Jesus