Following Christ: Sermons for the Christian Year
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Overview
Following Christ is a collection of sermons and spiritual addresses given by The Revd Dr Robert Beaken in urban and rural parishes, following the Church’s liturgical year including Advent, Christmas, Candlemas, Lent, Holy Week, Good Friday and Easter, Ascension Day, Trinity Sunday and Christ the King. Interwoven with this are sermons examining the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, which reflect the author’s love of Holy Scripture and experiences as a pilgrim in the Holy Land. The book looks at the sacraments including baptism, the Eucharist, confession, marriage and ordination. This is a book to be dipped into, perhaps during Lent, on a quiet day or during a retreat. The sermons and addresses were delivered to a wide range of people, ranging from members of an Anglican religious community, to parents bringing their babies to be baptized.
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- Reflects the author’s wide and varied pastoral experience.
- Shows the ups and downs of the Christian pilgrimage through life.
- Communicates the basics of the Christian faith clearly.
Beaken’s style is clear and readable (and listenable). He communicates the basics of the Christian faith clearly, and inflects this with personal references that do not collapse into self-indulgence. Taken as a whole, this volume is a very fine exposition of what we Christians believe and do, and why. That this has come from the pen of an “ordinary” parish priest gives this writer grounds for optimism in a Church all too often in thrall to spin and glitter. Highly recommended.
--The Revd Peter McGeary, Church Times
This collection of sermons (so well presented and published by Sacristy Press) offers an invaluable insight into the way in which an intelligent and articulate expression of the Catholic tradition within rural Anglicanism can continue to be expressed in a coherent and engaging manner. … Here is not just a collection of sermons, but an illustration of one way of celebrating the Christian community within rural life.
--Leslie J. Francis, Rural Theology
There is enough richness and originality of content to interest the seasoned sermon hearer, and it certainly would work as a introduction to the Christian Faith, or the basis for confirmation preparation. It could have a multitude of applications. It is a very attractive little book to have around and a delight to read with a very clear typeface. It has not been difficult to be very positive about this collection which was produced as a thanksgiving for thirty years in ordained ministry: here’s to many years more!
--Andrew Hawes, New Directions
- Title: Following Christ: Sermons for the Christian Year
- Author: Robert Beaken
- Publisher: Sacristy Press
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Pages: 130
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781789590821, 1789590825, 9781789590838, 1789590833, 1789590841, 9781789590845
- Resource ID: LLS:FLLWNGCHRSTCHYR
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-06-17T02:02:58Z
Robert Beaken was born in London in 1962. He trained for ordination in the Church of England at Cuddesdon, and studied as an ecumenical student at the Venerable English College and Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained deacon in 1988 and priest in 1989 in Portsmouth Cathedral by Bishop Timothy Bavin and served curacies at Forton, Gosport, and Shepshed in Leicestershire. In 1994 he became the vicar of St Barnabas’ Church, Old Heath, Colchester, and since 2002 has been the priest-in-charge of Great and Little Bardfield in north-west Essex.
Robert Beaken holds a PhD from King’s College London, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Dr Beaken has served as an academic tutor on the Eastern Region Ministry Course at Cambridge and as a Fan the Flame parish missioner. He is a Police chaplain in Essex and also county chaplain and hospitaller of the Order of St John.
Dr Beaken is the author of eight books including Cosmo Lang, Archbishop in War and Crisis and The Church of England and the Home Front 1914–1918 and writes for the Church Times and the Church of England Newspaper.