In Season: Homilies Through the Liturgical Year

by Luke Timothy Johnson

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2021

Overview

A selection of sermons or homilies preached over a fifty-year period explicitly linked to the church's liturgical year--thus, In Season. The sermons exemplify how engagement with lectionary texts, the church's cycle of worship, and the circumstances of contemporary believers, can all be brought into lively conversation.

Key Features

• Contains a collection of sermons based on liturgical connection
• Demonstrates how it moves from exposition to eloquent proclamation
• Contains notes for clarification concerning circumstances, terms, or usages that may seem obscure to some readers

Contents

Advent to Christmas

• The Season of Crisis
• The Coming of the Lord
• Hope and Commitment
• Christmas Present
• The Mystery That Is Christmas
• Shaped by the Word

Lent

• Fasting and Dieting
• The Old and New Adam
• Light and Life
• Avarice the Deadly Sin
• Repentance

Holy Week

• The Cross and Christian Existence
• The Power of the Cross
• Jesus's Faith and Ours
• The Table of the Lord
• Purring the Body Where the Mouth Is
• Speaking Truth in Face of Deceit

Good Friday

• Prayer and Suffering
• Simple Not Easy
• Revelatory Death
• The Suffering Servant
• The Body Language of Love

Easter to Christ the King

• The Day of Resurrection
• Paradoxical Life
• Dying We Live
• The Easter Presence of Jesus
• The Childless Kingdom
• The Eucharist and the Identity of Jesus
• Transfigurations
• Clothed with Christ
• God the Comic

Saints and Angels

• Foundation of Faith
• The Cost of Witnessing
• The Angelic Host
• We Live by Faith
• The Blessed and the Blasé

Praise for In Season

Here you will find the rationale for why Johnson has pursued New Testament studies with such rigor: in service to the church and its proclamation of the gospel. . . . Read these sermons by a Roman Catholic preacher because they epitomize the Protestant claim that ‘preaching the word of God is the word of God’ (Second Helvetic Confession).

—O. Wesley Allen Jr., Perkins School of Theology

In this nourishing and stimulating collection of homilies, Johnson, one of our generation’s finest interpreters of Scripture, brings texts from across the Christian year to fruition in proclamation. In a cultural moment of forced fasting, when meaning is starved, language demeaned, and truth devalued, the candor, beauty, honesty, and faithfulness of these sermons make for a feast indeed.

—Thomas G. Long, Candler School of Theology, retired

Most readers know and deeply appreciate Johnson’s array of scholarly works and his timely columns and reviews. Another compelling dimension of this unique scholar is found in In Season—in the depth of his faith, in his warm humanity, and in his love of the word revealed in these beautifully crafted and striking homilies.

—Donald Senior, CP, Catholic Theological Union, retired

Johnson’s collection of sermons is a gem. His exposition of God’s word as proclaimed in the church’s liturgy brings to life its power to effect an encounter with the living God and to be taught, formed, and transformed by the Spirit of the risen Jesus, the ‘pioneer and perfecter of our faith’ (Heb 12:2).

—Thomas D. Stegman, SJ, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry

Johnson has long been recognized as one of our most insightful expositors of the New Testament. This collection of sermons, organized around the seasons of the church’s liturgical calendar, demonstrates how he moves from exposition to eloquent proclamation. These timely messages model an exemplary humility before the word of Scripture: they are never showy and always substantive, always letting us hear the texts speak more clearly.

—Richard B. Hays, Duke University, retired

In Season is a unique gift to all students of Scripture. . . . Rich with contextual and metaphorical gems, packed with persuasive power, and laced with contemporary relevance, Johnson’s special collection of sermons spans the range of his career. Over and over, with each sermon, Johnson sparked my imagination to see the world of Scripture as my world—our world—where God is living and active to transform us. I will treasure this little book.

—Elizabeth E. Shively, St. Mary’s College, University of St Andrews

Product Details

• Title: In Season: Homilies Through the Liturgical Year
• Author: Luke Timothy Johnson
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Pages: 178
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• ISBNs: 9781725295322, 9781725295315, 9781725295339, 1725295326, 1725295318, 1725295334
• Resource ID: LLS:SSNHMLSLTRGCLYR
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-11T15:34:31Z

About Luke Timothy Johnson

New Testament scholar and early Christianity historian, Luke Timothy Johnson (1943–), is the Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Professor Johnson earned his BA in Philosophy from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, an MDiv in Theology from Saint Meinrad School of Theology, an MA in Religious Studies from Indiana University, and his PhD in New Testament Studies from Yale University. A former Benedictine monk, Johnson has taught at Yale Divinity School and Indiana University. He is the author of more than 20 books, has published a large number of scholarly and popular articles, anthologies, book reviews, and other academic papers, and lectures and received several awards for excellence in teaching. He often lectures at universities and seminaries worldwide, where he is widely perceived as the leading conservative scholar on the debates surrounding the Jesus Seminar, taking stances against its view of Jesus.