Some Defects in English Religion and Other Sermons, by John Neville Figgis (1917)

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Handbooks of
Catholic Faith and Practice

EDITED BY W. J. SPARROW SIMPSON, D.D.

SOME DEFECTS IN ENGLISH RELIGION

SOME DEFECTS IN
ENGLISH RELIGION

AND
OTHER SERMONS

By
JOHN NEVILLE FIGGIS, D.D., LITT.D.

OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE RESURRECTION
HONORARY FELLOW OF S. CATHARINE'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

LONDON: ROBERT SCOTT
ROXBURGHE HOUSE
PATERNOSTER ROW, E. C.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
THE YOUNG CHURCHMAN CO.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
MCMXVII

Transcribed by the Right Reverend Dr. Terry Brown
Bishop of Malaita, Church of the Province of Melanesia 2007

TO

CHRISTOPHER CHESHIRE

[vi] PREFATORY NOTE

THE course of sermons on Defects in English Religion was preached in August, 1916, at Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair. It is reprinted by kind permission of the proprietors of the Church Times. The sermons on The Mysteries of Love were preached during Lent at Grosvenor Chapel and elsewhere, and are printed here for the first time. The sermon on The Office of the Priest is reprinted by kind permission of the Editor of the English Church Review. Unfortunately, the manuscript of the second sermon in the course on The Mysteries of Love was lost in the post. Its most important points will be found in my little tract on the Church. The paper on The Sword and the Cross appeared in the Challenge early in the war. It is reprinted by kind permission.

J. N. F.

Sermon I. Sentimentalism

Sermon II. Legalism

Sermon III. Cowardice

Sermon IV. Complacency

Sermon V. Alive unto God

Sermon VI. The Office of the Priest

The Mysteries of Love:

Sermon VII. Bethlehem: The Helplessness of Love

Sermon VIII. Carmel: Love Contemplative

Sermon IX. Capernaum: Love Active

Sermon X. Tabor: Love Transfigured

Sermon XI. Jerusalem: Love Acclaimed

Sermon XII. Love Triumphant

Sermon XIII. The Sword and the Cross

Sermon XIV. Problems of Prayer

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