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The sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., comprise an extensive catalog of American writing and oratory – some of which are internationally well-known, while others remain unheralded and await rediscovery. Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent African-American clergyman, a leader in the civil rights movement and a Nobel Peace Prize ...
Forty-four Sermons. Sermons on Several Occasions is a collection of discourses or sermons published by Wesley, expounding on topics such as salvation by faith, the witness of the Spirit, the means of grace, and Christian perfection. [1] : 139 The 44 "standard sermons" are intended to equip Wesley's lay preachers with "a solid doctrinal basis ...
Publication date. 8 July 1741. " Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God " is a sermon written by the American theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached to his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts, to profound effect, [ 1] and again on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut. The preaching of this sermon was the catalyst for the First Great ...
Sermons of Laurence Sterne. The Works of Laurence Sterne. Laurence Sterne was an Anglican clergyman. In that position he delivered many sermons. Early in his career, he decided to publish his sermons. At first, only two were published. Sterne later parodied sermon writing in his novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman along ...
The Way to Wealth. The Way to Wealth or Father Abraham's Sermon is an essay written by Benjamin Franklin in 1758. It is a collection of adages and advice presented in Poor Richard's Almanack during its first 25 years of publication, organized into a speech given by "Father Abraham" to a group of people. Many of the phrases Father Abraham quotes ...
Sejm Sermons or the Eight sermons before the Sejm, [1] ( Polish: Kazania sejmowe) is a political treatise [2] [3] by Polish Jesuit Piotr Skarga, published in 1597. It is one of two most famous works by Skarga, the other being Żywoty świętych ( The Lives of the Saints ). [4]
Death's Duel is the final sermon delivered by John Donne as the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral. Donne received notice to preach the sermon on the first Friday of Lent (12 February 1631 [1] ) and preached the sermon on 25 February 1631. [2] The sermon was likely written out in full prior to Donne preaching it as it was subsequently prepared for ...
The Sermon on Law and Grace ( Church Slavonic: Слово о законѣ и благодѣти, romanized: Slovo o zakoně i blagoděti) is a sermon written by Hilarion, the metropolitan of Kiev. [1] It is one of the earliest Slavonic texts available, having been written several decades before the Primary Chronicle. [2] Since Hilarion was ...