Speaking of Sin

by Barbara Brown Taylor

Book Overview

In Speaking of Sin, Barbara Brown Taylor brings her fresh perspective to a cluster of words that often cause us discomfort and have widely fallen into neglect: sin, damnation, repentance, penance, and salvation. She asks, "Why, then, should we speak of sin anymore? The only reason I can think of is because we believe that God means to redeem the world through us.

"Abandoning the language of sin will not make sin go away. Human beings will continue...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561011894
• ISBN13: 9781561011896
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Cowley Publications
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

nonsense

Ms. Taylor needs to stick to Pastoral ministry. This book is written in the self-help style. 99% filler, and 1% error.

Engaging and powerful

Drew me in from the start. Ended up opening the book and reading it through in two hours without leaving my seat. Accesible read with down-to-earth language while totally engaging and thought provoking. As a preacher and teacher I am using it in many ways.

Speaking of Sin

We used this book for a study group at my church. It is beautifully written, lucid, challenging, and evoked meaningful discussion.

Christ is Coming Back Soon. Repent and Change.

Christ hates sin and He wants you to make it to Heaven and the only way for that to happen is if you obey the Ten Commandments Read your Bible, and place your trust in Him (Jesus Christ). In the End times, never take the Mark of the Beast or else you will go to Hell. The mark of the Beast time will be a time in where the Devil in the flesh will rule this Earth. So in order to make it to Heaven and have Immortal and eternal life, You have to Follow Christ. How do i get saved? 1. Pray alot for yourself, and ask for Forgiveness. 2. You admit and believe in your mind, heart and soul that Jesus Christ is the Son Of God. 3. Pray for the poor and do something for the poor. 4. Don't hate anyone, leave them alone. Don't wish anyone any bad things to occur to them. 5. Pray and Pray and Pray. I also recommend any books on Joy Lamb, like a book titled, "The Sword of the Spirit, The Word of God." Books i recommend to you is the following: 1.How to avoid Hell by Friar Schouppe. 2.As well as reading," The sword of the spirit, the Word of God" by Joy Lamb. 3. Also recommended to read King James Version Christian Bible. 4. Always go to Church, or Pray at Home. Repent of your sins and live a clean life as well as believing in Christ-- is Key for Eternal Salvation.

She Speaks of More Than Sin

From telling of her baptism at birth by a Catholic Priest, to attending Methodist & Baptist Churches on becoming a tenn-ager, to being a Seminary student at Yale Divinity School, Barbara Brown Taylor skips & leaps from the worlds of pluralism, post-modernism, even secularism... to the worlds of Karl Menninger, to Paul Tillich, to her Episcopal priesthood. I heard echoes of her Mercer Lectures focused upon "Worship of An Awesome God." One of those became the last chapter of her, "The Luminous Web!"Professor Taylor finishes her first chapter on the lost language of salvation: "to speak of sin in any compelling way, we need to go diving for the core experiences that word names... We may discover that sin is our only hope." She describes the multiple ministeries of the Washington Church of the Savior, compared to the AA group meeting in the basement of a small Presbyterian, to find that they had one thing in common. There was tne absence of self-defense. There seemed to be no need to place blame. From three Hebrew words for sin, as "missing the mark..." she concludes: "My concern is that neither language of medicine nor the language of law is an adequate substitute for the language of theolgy." She includes multi-cultures, multiple philosophies and many faiths in her awesome coverage of "the Lost Languages of Salvation!" This may top all of her long list of gift books. Chaplain Fred W. Hood...