When God is Silent

From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

When God is Silent. By Barbara Brown Taylor. Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications. 132 pp. $9.95 (paper).

Many readers will already be aware of Barbara Brown Taylor's growing reputation as a preacher. In this series of three Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching delivered at Yale Divinity School in 1997 she intimately, compassionately and intelligently explores the preacher's lot. "If God spoke directly to people, then preachers could retire," she explains in the preface. "As it is, God's reticence is the problem that clergy are hired to address" (p. xi).

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