Average Rating:  out of 16 Reviews
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Manufacturer: Westminster John Knox Press
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EAN (European Article Number): 9780664229481
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Sloane Coffin
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 2005-01-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: This collection of inspiring credos by William Sloane Coffin melds Christian spirit with social justice. Coffin's credentials are impressive--he served as chaplain of Yale University and Williams College, and he is the inspiration for the character Rev. Sloan in the Doonesbury comic strip. He is also a lifelong social crusader and peace activist. In James Carroll's exquisite introduction he recalls a night in 1972 when he and Coffin and numerous other ministers were thrown in jail for trespassing at the U.S. Capitol (while protesting the war in Vietnam). It was Coffin's baritone voice that broke the jailhouse silence, singing out Handel's "Messiah" and comforting the frightened men of the cloth. In fact, Coffin, author of The Heart is a Little to the Left has never been afraid to speak or sing out his beliefs. "I like to believe that I am an American patriot who loves his country enough to address her flaws," he states in the preface. "Today these are many, and all preachers worth their salt need fearlessly to insist that 'God 'n' Country' is not one word." Editor Stephanie Egnotovich reviewed a lifetime of Coffin's sermons and unpublished speeches and then excerpted and organized them into categories. His words and her editing created a book that is full of quotables. For example: On Social Justice and Economic Rights: "In the United States grim poverty is a tragedy that great wealth makes a sin." On Social Justice and Civil Liberties: "Prejudice disfigures the observer, not the person observed. If only the latter could remember it." On Patriotism: "All nations make decisions based on self-interest and then defend them in the name of morality." On War and Peace: "We are beginning to resemble extinct dinosaurs who suffered from too much armor and too little brain." For the leftist leaning Christian, this is the book you'll want to take on your next spiritual retreat, political protest, or any situation where left-leaning Christians gather to create social change. And when it's not being carted around in a satchel, it deserves a permanent residence on your lifelong spiritual contemplations bookshelf. --Gail Hudson
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: brilliant insight !! |
Date: 2008-02-08 |
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Details: This is a great book! I read it a month ago and now I'm reading it again...
I agree with almost everything Slone Coffin says, he clearly seems my type of person, huge in kindness and compassion, surely in the best prophetic tradition and in the likeness of Christ.
He addresses all of the important spiritual issues of the day, and does it with honesty, without omitting controversial issues.
I would say Sloan Coffin Seems to me like a spiritual giant!!
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Review Summary: Prophetic voice too often missing today |
Date: 2007-08-21 |
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Details: I am stunned at some of the reviews. If there ever was a man who got it(faith, the GOSPEL as in good news ) it was Coffin.As he stated,(to paraphrase) I love creeds and doctrines but they must be only seen as signposts. The hitching post is Christ's love.
Evidently some of the reviewers did not actually read the book. |
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Review Summary: A Genuine 20th Century Prophet |
Date: 2006-01-05 |
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Details: William Sloane Coffin is the real deal. He calls for social justice, not despite religious faith, but due to it. His message is rare because it has become fresher and more relvant as time goes on. He is warm, witty and insigtful and this is a good omnibus of his lifes thoughts. "Letters to a Young Doubter" is another fine book. And to those that accuse him of relativism; that is precisely false. He absolutely and with conviction speaks truth to power and represents the Lord with integrity. |
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Review Summary: Say what? |
Date: 2005-12-29 |
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Details: I have to say I don't really get it. I picked up a book expecting just that, a "Credo," which is a statement of faith and belief of some kind. But this could not be further from it. W.S. Coffin doesn't believe in anything. He seems to think that pulpit witticisms constitute doctrine. I can't get a real feel for anything he believes theologically. Instead, he's substituted tepid politics for church talk. If I wanted this, I would read a book by William Clinton instead of William Coffin, and it would probably say the same things. |
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Review Summary: Why Try? |
Date: 2005-10-01 |
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Details: Coffin's collection of (somewhat scattered) thoughts seems to boil down to the basic idea that the world would be a better place if people were gracious to each other. However, one wonders, if God is such a small part of the picture all along, what is the reason why people ought to be gracious? He seems to pull the carpet out from under his own feet. Why should people honor one another if God is just a farce that we have put on to soothe our consciences? |
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