Sermons for the city: Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Illinois Review

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Sermons for the city: Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Illinois ReviewThere are those who have always believed cities to be impersonal, heartless, brutal places. Then there are those who minister to the countless souls who inhabit the vast metropolis, her throbing pulse of fast-moving traffic, clanging sounds of commerce, dissonant halls of politics and governance. Perhaps nowhere else is the soul more tested then in the bowels of a thriving city, where the yearning for a quiet word of peace and a sound-proof sanctuary of prayer are often the only thing that can bring order to the vibrant chaos of city life. It is into this world that we are privilaged to hear (read) a fresh word of hope from the hearts and minds of two great communicators of the Gospel, Elam Davies and John Buchanan.
Lifted from the quiet sanctuary of the historic Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago, these sermon selections represent a word to that city and to cities everywhere. Drawn from the archives of both men, these sermons allow the reader to enter the flow of a preaching ministry in the big city. Beginning with six sermons from the pen of Elam Davies, pastor emeritis, his messages reflect the pulse of the sixties, seventies and early eighties, as Chicago struggled through the turmoil of domestic and foreign political tensions that gripped our nation in those decades. One particularly gripping message was delivered one Palm Sunday ("The Protest of a Modern Palm Sunday") in 1968, about the tragic and untimely death of Martin Luther King. In it, Davies boldly takes us into the grim reality of that difficult time. It's magnificently brilliant comparison between the events in Jerusalem in A.D. 33 and those of Memphis, Tennessee, A.D. 68, pull the imagination in ways that can only draw the reader closer toward the center of the Gospel message.
Likewise, Buchanan, the current occupant of the Fourth Church pulpit, former moderator of the Presbyterian Church USA (P.C.U.S.A.), and newly selected editor and publisher of "The Christian Century", too, can grasp hold the heart as well the mind. His "Who Wants to Be Number One?" and "And Mercy Shall Follow Me" do far more than merely tickle the intellect or pull upon heartstrings. There is meat and potatoes here for the starving, clothed in the lush, soft textures of a golden, savory gravy.
All in all, these words seem able somehow to transcend the pages upon which the ink has come to rest. Two great men, two great preachers, two great selections. Though Davies is the clear master of the two, reflecting a power and eloquence that few possesed in his day or in our own, Buchanan comes as close as most can to that quality of preaching that has, for the loss of an audience equal to it, "gone the way of all flesh."
As the liner states, "In the heart of Chicago, Illinois, there is a church with an enduring history of preachers who have addressed a gathered people with great power. At Fourth Presbyterian Church, it is in this exchange between preacher and congregation that the word comes alive." So it shall be said of this book and her readers.Sermons for the city: Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Illinois Overview

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