Where Theologians Belong: Behind the Pulpit.

This list was long overdue. I offer it both to beginners and to the more seasoned. If you’re new to theology, sermons can be a great entry point, and more immediately nourishing. If you’ve already been around the block once or twice, you may find that retaining sermons in your reading diet goes a long way toward keeping your focus on the one thing needful. Here are some favorites, and more. Most are fairly contemporary theologians. I’ve tried to draw from a variety of traditions.

• American Sermons: The Pilgrim’s to Martin Luther King Jr., (Library of America, 1999)
• Preaching with Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present, (Norton, 2010)
• Robert Barron, Word on Fire: Proclaiming the Power of Christ, (Crossroad, 2008)
• Karl Barth, The Early Preaching of Karl Barth: Fourteen Sermons, (WJKP, 2009)
• —, Deliverance to the Captives, (Wipf&Stock, 2010)
• —, The Word in this World: Two Sermons, (Regent, 2007)
• Frederick Beuchner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons, (HaperCollins, 2007)
• Hans Boersma, Sacramental Preaching. (Baker, 2016)
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (Fortress, 2012)
• Walter Brueggemann, The Collected Sermons of Walter Brueggemann, (WJK, 2011)
• Fred Craddock, The Collected Sermons of Fred B. Craddock, (WJK, 2011)
• John Donne, John Donne’s Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels, Rev. Ed., (U of California, 2003)
• Jonathan Edwards, The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, (Yale 1999)
  
• Austin Farrer, The Essential Sermons, (SPCK, 1991)
• Gerhard Forde, We Preach Christ Crucified (Lutheran Univ. Pr., 2016)
• Colin Gunton, Theology Through Preaching: The Gospel and the Christian Life, (T&T Clark, 2005)
• —, The Theologian as Preacher: Further Sermons from Colin Gunton, (T&T Clark, 2007)
• Stanley Hauerwas, Without Apology: Sermons for Christ’s Church, (Seabury, 2013)
• Richard Hooker, The Sermons of Richard Hooker: A Modern Edition, (SPCK, 2001)
• Nicholas Lash, Seeing in the Dark: University Sermons, (DLT, 2005).
• Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Christ-Centered Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Sermons for the Church Today, (Crossway, 2014)
• Gilbert Meilaender,  Love Taking Shape: Sermons on the Christian Life, (Eerdmans, 2002)
• John Henry Newman, Selected Semons, (Paulist Press, 1993)
• Oliver O’Donovan, The World in Small Boats: Sermons from Oxford, (Eerdmans, 2009)
• John Owen, Sermons to the Church, (Banner of Truth, 1999)
• Helmut Thielicke, Christ and the Meaning of Life: A Book of Sermons, (Harper, 1962)
• Denys Turner, Faith Seeking, (SCM, 2012)
• Friedrich Schleiermacher, Selected Sermons of Schleiermacher, (Wipf&Stock, 2004)
• John Webster, The Grace of Truth, (Oil Lamp, 2011). [Republished as Confronted by Grace: Meditations of a Theologian, (Lexham Pr, 2015).]
• John Wesley, John Wesley’s Sermons: An Anthology, (Abingdon, 1991)
• George Whitefield, The Sermons of George Whitefield, (Crossway, 2012)
• Rowan Williams, A Ray of Darkness: Sermons and Reflections, 3rd Ed., (Cowley, 1995)
• Telford Work, “You Can Say That Again,” (2005)