Reverence for Life (sermons)

  • Type Sermon
  • Genre sermons
  • Tradition Lutheran
  • Original language German

For For readers who want to hear Schweitzer as a preacher, in a more personal and devotional voice than his books; short sermons.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher
2 of 5 useful
Difficulty
1 of 5 light

Sermons from his Strasbourg curacy, published after his death: a more personal and devotional Schweitzer than the scholarly books.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 1 of 5
  • Scriptural 3 of 5
  • Experiential 4 of 5
  • Sociological 2 of 5
  • Historical 0 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A posthumous collection of the sermons Schweitzer preached at St Nicholas Church in Strasbourg, where he was curate in the years before he went to Africa. Reginald H. Fuller's English translation was published by Harper & Row in 1969 as Reverence for Life. The sermons show a more personal and devotional side of his faith than his scholarly books.

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