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Sermons of Arthur C. McGill

by David Cain

In Sermons of Arthur C. McGill, the late Harvard professor comes across as both pastoral and prophetic. Seventeen of his sermons have been made available by his wife, Lucille McGill, and edited by David Cain, distinguished professor of religion at UMW. 

During the 1960s and 1970s, Arthur McGill had many opportunities to share his theological musings outside of the classroom. These sermons reveal the core themes of McGill’s theology as he addresses the issues of possessions, speech, loneliness, and anger.

McGill always lets “the chosen text set the sermon’s agenda and determine the emotional terrain it will traverse,” said Thomas Breidenthal, dean of religious life at Princeton University. “David Cain has done a great service in making them available to a new audience in a similarly troubled time.”

Sermons of Arthur C. McGill was published in January 2007 by Cascade Books.

                                                 – Gracie Hart ’08