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Rev. Dr Paul H. FRIESEN --- Cliquer pour agrandir

Paul Friesen became the 16th rector of St. Paul’s Church, Halifax, in the summer of 2005

As a young adult Paul earned his way on construction sites and landscaping projects. He worked for a while as a probation and parole officer, an assistant dean of students (Wycliffe College, Toronto), and then as an undergraduate history lecturer at several Universities and colleges. He graduated from the University of Toronto, and then completed graduate degrees in theology at Harvard Divinity School (Th. M.) and the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto (Ph.D.). He began offering courses at the Atlantic School of Theology in 2001, and became Adjunct Lecturer in Anglican Theology in 2007. In 2014–2015, at the invitation of the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, he also served as a theologian on the Matrimonial Commission of the Anglican Church of Canada. Paul has written reviews and essays and given lectures and talks in various places in the midst of his pastoral and academic work for the past two decades, and continues to do so. He also served as Reviews Editor for The Diocesan Times (2003–2013) and is a co-author of several published works; By Grace Co-Workers (1989), The Parish and Cathedral of St. James, Toronto (1998), The True and Living Word (1998), Seeds Scattered and Sown (2008), Guide for the Christian Perplexed (2012), This Holy Estate (2015), and Reformation Worlds (2016). He is currently working on a project entitled Sacramental Religion.

B.A. (University of Toronto)
M.Div. (Tyndale Seminary)
Th.M. (Harvard University)
Ph.D. (University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto)

2019 : Adjunct Professor of Anglican Studies
Atlantic School of Theology
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Halifax, NS B3H 3B

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Sermons of the Church of Saint Magdalene, Toronto

Titre :	Sermons of the Church of Saint Magdalene, Toronto / auteur(s) : Rev. Dr Paul H. FRIESEN - Holy Week and Easter 1998
Editeur :	Paul H. FRIESEN
Année :	1998
Imprimeur/Fabricant :	Toronto, Canada
Description :	14 x 21 cm, 44 pages,couverture illustrée en couleurs
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Notes :
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Sujets :	Sermons
ISBN :
Lecture On-line :	non disponible

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Preface

It has been noted that long before the protestant Reformation erupted in his country, Henry VIII became restless during the mass only when sermons extended well beyond their first hour. More than three hundred years later, the most recent sermon of the most famous (or infamous) of Victorian preachers, the pugnacious Baptist Charles Spurgeon, would be on sale on Monday morning in the newsstands of London. Much has changed in the media, and publishing, and in liturgical reform in the years since, much of it good, most would agree. But the sermon has taken a beating. Our attention spans have withered and our notion of the authority of the text and the authority of the preacher have been transformed. If the preaching and publishing and reading of sermons are not nearing extinction, sermons are hardly the backbone of catechesis and spiritual formation, as they once were for the Anglican Communion.
Nonetheless, this little collection is neither a plea to roll back church history nor a challenge to the centrality of the eucharist or to the prayers of the faithful in the contemporary Anglican tradition. It is a modest attempt to help all of us reflect upon the core of our tradition, the Scriptures, and upon the Creator and Redeemer who is at their centre.
These sermons were preached within three days of each other by four different preachers in the pulpit of the Church of the St. Mary Magdalene, in the season that has defined Christianity across the centuries. In 1998 it was a season in which the parish seemed to feel an accumulating sense of the presence of God in the great liturgies of our faith, and an unusual consensus about the work of the Holy Spirit in our hearts through what the Book of Alternative Services has been bold to call the 'Proclamation of the Word'. If this booklet is able to summon up even a little of the reality of that Holy Week and Easter, grace will have been added onto grace, as St. Paul once said.
I would like to thank the parish for granting me a little time to edit these sermons, and Margot Poaps for converting a messy stack of manuscripts into a handsome booklet. They come from four different hands and echo four different voices, and so have been modified for reading as little as possible to preserve their uniqueness.
Deogratias, whose praises these sermons aspire to sing.
PaulH.Friesen All Saints, 1998

Rev. Dr Paul H. FRIESEN