The Silence of God

by Helmut Thielicke

FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY TRANSLATOR GEOFFREY W. BROMILEY: Helmut Thielicke "has a vivid awareness of the actual needs of actual people living in this age of supreme storm and stress. He sees how the biblical message, how Jesus Christ Himself as the living message, answers powerfully and sufficiently to these needs. He appreciates that faith in Him is not an easy thing, and yet that true faith carries us to victory even in doubt, anxiety, distress and the terrors of conflict and destruction. He attains almost an apocalyptic stature in his depiction of our shattered world and in his proclamation of the message of God's salvation and judgements within it. Here are sermons to put into the hands of contemporaries who suffer from the fears and anxieties which Thielicke so graphically describes but who do not yet perceive the true meaning and relevance of what God did for man in the giving of His only Son. Here are sermons from which to learn how the old Gospel, first given in a very different world, may come with all the living comfort and the regenerative force of truth and reality to our own age too, made relevant by the Holy Spirit on the lips of the sensitive and dedicated preacher."

Genres: Theology

124 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1962

Reviews

[Tim Sheppard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some good thoughts on anxiety and commentary of the Matt 15 passage dealing with the Gentile woman. She approached Jesus and he did not say a word to her. Helmut provides some clarity and focus here on a passage I have always skipped over.

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thielicke preached a number of sermons leading up to, and through, World War 2, appealing to the moral conscience of Germany. Even 50 years later, his words carry a poignant urgency. How is the cross of Christ relevant in suffering? In moral crisis? How can God be merciful and silent during a perilous time?

[Lukas Stock · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now this is preaching.

[Brent Shepherd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Helmut Thielicke just doesn’t miss! His sermons are incredible examples of bringing the gospel to bear on suffering and directing people to look above all else at Christ alone for hope.

Not quite as good as How to Believe Again, but that’s probably because this is a compilation of sermons rather than the coherent sermon series collected in that book.