Dennis M. Campbell - "The Impossible Possibility" (October 13, 1985)

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	(bright organ music)	0:04
	(classical organ music)	1:39
	(classical organ music)	2:19
	(classical organ music)	3:21
	(slow tempo organ music)	4:07
	(slow classical organ music)	5:03
	(slow classical organ music)	6:34
	(mid tempo classical organ music)	8:01
	(bright classical organ music)	9:21
	(bright classical organ music)	10:51
	(bright classical organ music)	11:25
-	Welcome this morning to Duke Chapel.	11:50
	We're particularly delighted to see so many visitors.	11:52
	Our preacher this morning is the Reverend Doctor	11:56
	Dennis M Campbell who is Dean of our Divinity School	11:59
	and a leader	12:04
	in theological education in this country,	12:06
	and we welcome him again to our pulpit.	12:10
	Our music this morning will be lead by the Alamance Chorale	12:14
	who are visiting with us today.	12:18
	They've been here since early morning	12:22
	preparing to lead us in worship	12:23
	and we welcome them again to the Chapel.	12:26
	If you're a regular worshiper with us	12:31
	we remind you of the Duke Chapel forums which	12:33
	are being held every Sunday morning at 9:30	12:37
	in the room in the Divinity School	12:42
	on various topics of contemporary interest	12:45
	and all of you are invited.	12:49
	Let us continue our worship.	12:52
	(classical organ music)	12:58
	(choir singing in distance)	13:28
	(choir singing religious music in distance)	14:39
	(classical organ music)	15:19
	(religious singing in distance)	16:00
	When we gather to worship,	16:37
	we remember that we are God's people,	16:39
	but we are also brought face to face with the fact	16:42
	that we are people who often prefer our wills to God's will.	16:45
	Therefore let us begin our worship by confessing our sins.	16:52
	(light talking in distance)	16:59
	Most merciful God, we confess that	17:10
	we have sinned against you,	17:13
	in thought, word, and deed,	17:15
	by what we have done, and by what we have left undone.	17:18
	We have not loved you with our whole heart,	17:24
	we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.	17:27
	For the sake of your son, Jesus Christ,	17:31
	have mercy on us and forgive us,	17:35
	that we may delight in your will	17:38
	and walk in your ways to the glory of your name.	17:41
	Amen.	17:46
	Here, the good news,	17:50
	Christ died for us while we were yet sinners.	17:53
	This is God's own proof of his love toward us.	17:58
	In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.	18:03
-	In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven.	18:10
-	Let us pray together the prayer for illumination.	18:16
	Open our hearts and minds oh God,	18:21
	by the power of your holy spirit.	18:24
	So that its word is read and proclaimed	18:27
	we might hear with joy what you say to us this day.	18:31
	Amen.	18:36
-	The first lesson is taken from Genesis.	18:48
	And they heard the sound of the Lord God	18:51
	walking in the garden in the cool of the day	18:54
	and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence	18:57
	of the Lord God among the trees of the garden,	19:01
	but the Lord God called to the man and said to him,	19:04
	"Where are you?"	19:08
	And he said, "I heard the sound of thee in the garden,	19:10
	"and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself."	19:14
	He said, "Who told you that you were naked?	19:19
	"Have you eaten of the tree of	19:22
	"which I commanded you not to eat?"	19:24
	The man said, "The woman whom thou gaveth to be with me,	19:27
	"she gave me fruit of the tree and I ate."	19:32
	Then the Lord God said to the woman,	19:35
	"What is this that you have done?"	19:38
	The woman said, "The serpent beguiled me and I ate."	19:41
	The Lord God said to the serpent,	19:46
	"Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle	19:49
	"and above all wild animals.	19:54
	"Upon your belly you shall go,	19:56
	"and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.	19:59
	"I will put enmity between you and the woman,	20:02
	"and between your seed and her seed.	20:05
	"He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."	20:08
	To the woman he said,	20:13
	"I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing.	20:15
	"In pain you shall bring forth children	20:19
	"yet your desire shall be for your husband,	20:22
	"and he shall rule over you."	20:26
	And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened	20:28
	"to the voice of your wife,	20:31
	"and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you,	20:33
	"you shall not eat of it.	20:37
	"Cursed is the ground because of you.	20:38
	"In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.	20:41
	"Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you,	20:45
	"and you shall eat the plants of the field.	20:49
	"In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread	20:52
	"til you return to the ground,	20:54
	"for out of it you were taken.	20:57
	"You are dust and to dust you shall return."	20:59
	This ends the reading of the first lesson.	21:04
	(light organ music begins)	21:22
	(choir sings religious hymn)	21:37
	(choir singing religious hymn)	22:58
	(choir singing religious hymn)	23:48
	(dramatic organ music)	24:07
	(choir singing religious hymn)	24:20
	(choir singing lightly)	25:19
	(choir singing lightly)	26:21
	(classical organ music)	27:08
	(choir singing religious hymn)	27:13
	The second lesson is taken from the letter to the Hebrews.	28:52
	Therefore while the promise of entering his rest remains,	28:57
	let us fear lest any of you be judged	29:01
	to have failed to reach it,	29:04
	for good news came to us just as to them,	29:06
	but the message which they heard did not benefit them	29:09
	because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.	29:12
	For we who have believed in of that rest as he has said,	29:16
	"As I swore in my wrath, they shall never enter my rest."	29:20
	Although his words were finished from	29:24
	the foundation of the world, so then there remains	29:26
	a sabbath rest for the people of God,	29:30
	for whoever enters God's rest also ceases	29:33
	from his labors as God did from his.	29:37
	Let us therefore strive to enter that rest,	29:40
	that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience,	29:44
	for the word of God is living and active,	29:48
	sharper than any two edge sword,	29:52
	piercing to the division of soul and spirit	29:55
	of joints and marrow and discerning the thoughts	29:58
	and intentions of the heart,	30:02
	and before him, no creature is hidden,	30:05
	but all are open and laid bare to the eyes of him	30:08
	with whom we have to do.	30:12
	This ends the reading of the second lesson.	30:15
	(classical organ music)	30:30
	(choir singing lightly)	30:58
	(choir singing religious hymn)	31:52
	(choir singing religious hymn)	33:12
	(choir singing brightly)	34:18
-	Gospel lesson for this day	35:35
	is taken from the book of Saint Mark in the 10th chapter	35:38
	beginning with the 17th verse.	35:44
	And as he was setting out on his journey	35:47
	a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him,	35:49
	"Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"	35:53
	And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good?	35:58
	"No one is good, but God alone.	36:02
	"You know the commandments, do not kill,	36:05
	"do not commit adultery, do not steal,	36:09
	"do not bear false witness,	36:13
	"do not defraud, honor your father and mother."	36:16
	And he said to him, "Teacher,	36:22
	"all these I have observed from my youth."	36:24
	And Jesus looking upon him loved him,	36:28
	and said to him, "You lack one thing.	36:32
	"Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor,	36:35
	"and you will have treasure in heaven,	36:40
	"and then come, follow me."	36:44
	At that saying his countenance fell	36:49
	and he went away sorrowful,	36:53
	for he had great possessions.	36:57
	And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples,	37:02
	"How hard it will be for those who have riches	37:04
	"to enter the kingdom of God."	37:09
	And the disciples were amazed at his words,	37:13
	but Jesus said to them again,	37:17
	"Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God.	37:19
	"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle	37:25
	"than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."	37:29
	And they were exceedingly astonished	37:34
	and said to him, "Then who can be saved?"	37:38
	Jesus looked at them and said,	37:44
	"With men, it is impossible,	37:47
	"but not with God."	37:51
	Thus endeth the lesson from the Holy Gospel for this day.	37:56
	May God's grace be with us all	38:01
	that we may rightly hear and understand his holy word.	38:04
	Amen.	38:10
	You see he was very rich	38:13
	and he was moral	38:18
	and he was good.	38:21
	He came up to Jesus as he was setting out on his journey	38:23
	and asked,	38:27
	"What must I do to be saved?"	38:28
	Jesus quotes him the commandments	38:33
	and the young man replies that	38:36
	he has done them from his youth.	38:38
	Jesus then tells him to go sell all that he has	38:43
	and give to the poor and then come and follow him.	38:47
	Hearing that,	38:53
	the young rich man	38:55
	went away sorrowfully.	38:57
	Jesus then turns to his disciples	39:01
	who heard the conversation and offers	39:04
	the commentary you just heard,	39:07
	on the problems of the rich.	39:11
	It's going to be hard for the rich.	39:13
	Indeed it's easier for a camel to go	39:17
	through the eye of a needle than for a rich man	39:21
	to get into the kingdom of God.	39:25
	Well, this passage makes us uncomfortable doesn't it?	39:29
	We discussed this passage in our house this week.	39:33
	The reaction was swift.	39:38
	We don't like Jesus' answer.	39:40
	It's too difficult.	39:43
	He asked him to give up everything.	39:45
	It's impossible.	39:48
	One of my favorite modern novelists	39:51
	is the English writer Barbara Pym.	39:54
	In her novel An Unsuitable Attachment	39:58
	there is a scene which takes place	40:01
	in the home of the rector of one of	40:03
	London's most fashionable churches.	40:05
	The rector, his wife, and niece	40:09
	are having dinner after Sunday service, such as this.	40:12
	They are discussing the problems	40:17
	of getting the wealthy parishioners to observe lent.	40:20
	"My dear, this is a fashionable London parish so called,"	40:25
	said the rector.	40:30
	He carved the saddle of mut and savagely	40:32
	as if he were rending his parishioners.	40:36
	What hope is there for them this lent?	40:40
	I suppose they can give up drinking cocktails.	40:44
	Bertha, the Minister's wife protested.	40:49
	"Somebody has got to minister to the rich."	40:53
	She was often thankful that her husband	40:58
	had not felt the call to serve in a slum parish,	41:00
	or on a new housing estate.	41:05
	Life in a Mayfair rectory suited her very well	41:09
	and she had private means.	41:13
	It had always seemed so hard	41:16
	that saying about the rich man	41:19
	and the kingdom of heaven.	41:23
	The rector observed, "My particular cross	41:26
	"is to be a fashionable preacher, as they say.	41:30
	"Bertha is quite right when she says	41:36
	"that somebody must minister to the rich.	41:39
	And indeed it is so that somebody must minister to the rich	41:44
	just as somebody	41:49
	must minister in Duke Chapel, Will.	41:50
	And of course,	41:56
	somebody must be Dean of the Divinity School.	41:58
	And we could go on until we found the rationalization	42:02
	that each of you uses	42:07
	to get around this saying of Jesus.	42:09
	The fact of the matter is that on any comparative scale	42:14
	with most people in this country	42:18
	and certainly with most people in this world,	42:20
	almost all of us in this Chapel this morning	42:24
	are rich.	42:28
	It is clear from these words of Jesus	42:31
	that we have a problem.	42:35
	Our reaction is not however	42:40
	the same of the rich young man.	42:43
	We have not gone away.	42:46
	We're here this morning	42:50
	and so while we may be uneasy with the story	42:53
	because we can identify with the young man,	42:56
	nevertheless,	43:00
	I think our presence probably indicates	43:02
	that we want and hope	43:06
	to stay with Jesus.	43:09
	We have not and, really,	43:11
	cannot give up everything	43:13
	yet we say	43:16
	Lord, we would be Christians.	43:18
	This Gospel passage forces us to come to terms	43:23
	with the difficult question, in what way	43:27
	or to what degree is Christ relevant	43:32
	to the situation in which we must live?	43:36
	This has been a problem for the Church	43:40
	from the earliest days of Christianity.	43:42
	It has to do with the relationship	43:46
	between Christian faith and culture.	43:49
	How do we live in the world	43:54
	and yet live a Christian life?	43:57
	Perhaps it is worthwhile noting	44:02
	that this is not a problem	44:05
	for Christianity alone.	44:07
	It certainly is a problem for all of the monotheistic faiths	44:10
	that is the religions which profess	44:15
	the reality of one sovereign god.	44:18
	Some of you perhaps will have seen in the last	44:22
	three issues of New Yorker Magazine,	44:25
	the remarkable and absorbing	44:28
	three very long articles	44:32
	by Lis Harris	44:35
	about the Lubavitcher movement	44:37
	within Hasidic Judaism.	44:40
	And there she tells the story of this	44:43
	very interesting group who seek	44:47
	to live within culture	44:50
	yet marginal to it	44:53
	and denying	44:55
	secular culture,	44:59
	or we could think of contemporary problems for Islam	45:01
	and many of the problems in the middle east today can	45:05
	be understood only if we understand that	45:08
	for many within Islam, the confrontation between	45:12
	that religion and the modern secular culture of the west,	45:17
	is profoundly troubling.	45:22
	Indeed one state department official	45:25
	once observed to me a couple of years ago	45:27
	that he is convinced that part of the	45:29
	serious problems the United States had	45:32
	and even understanding the downfall of the Shah of Iran	45:35
	was because few if any in the state department	45:39
	or the higher levels of our government really believed	45:45
	that religious motivation could be	45:50
	so determinative in the modern world.	45:53
	Faith and culture is a problem,	45:58
	not just for Christians,	46:01
	but this problem	46:04
	is particularly great for Christians	46:07
	because in fact,	46:10
	a great many of Jesus' teachings	46:12
	concern what we are to do	46:16
	with our possessions.	46:19
	Now there's an extensive literature	46:22
	in the Christian tradition on this problem.	46:24
	Paul, Augustan, Aquinas, Calvin,	46:27
	Luther, Wesley, all address it.	46:30
	H Richard Niebuhr in our own time	46:34
	has addressed it in a classic manner.	46:36
	Some Christians have simply tried	46:39
	to reject culture altogether,	46:41
	and there are those who want to take Jesus' words literally.	46:44
	One thinks for instance of Roman Catholic	46:49
	ArchBishop Oscar Romero of Latin America	46:51
	and his observation about God's	46:55
	preferential option for the poor.	46:58
	Or one can think of the hermit tradition,	47:01
	the monastic movements but also groups such as the Amish,	47:04
	this summer my family and I visited an Amish--	47:08

-	Market in Pennsylvania,	0:07
	and I was struck by the culture-denying reality,	0:09
	but also certain accommodation.	0:15
	Why, for instance,	0:17
	deny modern dress	0:19
	yet accept modern running shoes?	0:22
	I don't know.	0:27
	I mention this to suggest that even the rejectors	0:28
	of dominant culture	0:32
	must make some adjustments	0:34
	to live in the world.	0:37
	The problem is a real one.	0:39
	Some Christians, on the other hand,	0:42
	have chosen to eliminate the problem	0:45
	by assuming that culture and Christian faith	0:48
	are the same thing in the modern West.	0:51
	In America, this position was well represented	0:56
	by episcopal bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts.	0:59
	In 1901, he wrote that now	1:03
	we are in a position to affirm	1:08
	that neither history, experience,	1:10
	nor the Bible necessarily	1:14
	sustains the common distrust	1:16
	of the effect of material wealth on morality.	1:19
	God, he said,	1:24
	godliness is in league with riches.	1:26
	He was the forerunner	1:32
	of some contemporary American Christian leaders	1:34
	who equate Christian faith with American values,	1:38
	including the materialism of middle class life,	1:43
	and our national defense policies.	1:47
	Most television evangelists	1:51
	and independent popular preachers	1:53
	are silent on the morality of second homes	1:56
	or expensive recreational vehicles	2:01
	in a nation where many persons barely get by.	2:05
	I could go on citing examples	2:10
	of the ways in which Christians	2:13
	have tried to handle the relationship	2:15
	between Christian faith and culture.	2:18
	But it's enough to say that while some	2:22
	have gone to the extremes of rejection	2:25
	of culture or total acceptance of culture,	2:28
	most have tried to avoid	2:32
	either baptizing culture or condemning it,	2:35
	and have tried to live with some degree	2:40
	of ambiguity and tension.	2:44
	Reminds me of the wealthy man	2:49
	who came up to his pastor and said	2:51
	"I'm getting old, and I'm sick.	2:53
	"Do you suppose if I leave everything to the church,	2:56
	"I'll go right to heaven?"	2:59
	And his pastor replied, "It's worth a try."	3:01
	I have a friend who accuses theologians	3:11
	of being in the business of complexification.	3:14
	And it is true that in my lectures	3:19
	and sermons I find myself often saying	3:22
	that most ideas are more complex than we usually allow.	3:25
	H. L. Mencken, the sage of Baltimore,	3:30
	once observed that to every complex problem,	3:33
	there are 10 simple answers, all of them wrong.	3:37
	This is the kind of problem we've got in this gospel text.	3:44
	The problem of the rich young man is complex,	3:48
	it is difficult, and there is no easy answer.	3:52
	Now do you feel frustrated?	3:58
	So did the disciples.	4:03
	We find ourselves at this point	4:06
	joining in the chorus	4:09
	with those exceedingly astonished disciples,	4:12
	then who can be saved?	4:17
	Now the answer to this question	4:22
	as John Wesley often remarked	4:24
	is the pivotal answer for humankind.	4:27
	Men and women by nature want to trust in themselves,	4:32
	in their goodness, their creative potential,	4:38
	their material possessions.	4:42
	Here we really get to the heart of the problem	4:46
	of this sermon.	4:50
	Where is the source of our trust and hope?	4:52
	Our own efforts, our own intelligence,	4:57
	our own knowledge, our own art,	5:01
	are all ultimately for nothing apart from God.	5:04
	None of us, you see, can do enough to merit salvation.	5:10
	We literally cannot do all that Jesus demands.	5:16
	And I think that that is exactly why he demands so much.	5:23
	We are left hopeless	5:29
	if we rely on ourselves.	5:32
	The institutions, the governments,	5:37
	the organizations of this world cannot save us.	5:40
	The university, for instance,	5:45
	has been for some a source of hope,	5:47
	but as a human institution,	5:50
	the university is profoundly limited.	5:52
	As Margaret Clapp, a former president	5:55
	of Wellesley College once remarked,	5:58
	modern universities have been more successful	6:00
	in helping men and women wage war	6:03
	than in helping us wage peace.	6:06
	Perhaps Matthew Arnold was right	6:09
	in his classic description of the university	6:12
	as home of lost causes.	6:15
	The point is that apart from God,	6:19
	we all live in a home of lost causes.	6:22
	In the words of the classic prayer, forgive us Lord,	6:27
	for we have preferred our wills to thine.	6:32
	But thank God Jesus did not leave	6:39
	the astonished disciples in despair.	6:42
	The third section of today's gospel lesson	6:47
	includes Jesus' remarkable reply,	6:50
	"With men it is impossible, but not with God.	6:53
	"For all things are possible with God."	7:00
	There is no hope for the rich young man	7:05
	or for any of us here this morning	7:09
	if we trust in ourselves and the things of this world.	7:12
	Our only hope is trust in God,	7:18
	because all things are possible with God.	7:22
	The good news is that this grace of God	7:29
	is given unto us without regard	7:32
	to our ability to perform the exceptional.	7:36
	This is the good news	7:43
	that Jesus gives to His disciples.	7:46
	It's the good news for us today.	7:50
	Where do you put your trust?	7:55
	The rich young man put his in his possessions,	7:58
	perhaps some of us in institutions,	8:03
	in our possessions, in material goods,	8:06
	in status, in reward,	8:09
	in award, you find your own.	8:11
	But the truth is that only trust in God	8:16
	ultimately makes any difference.	8:20
	My prayer is that all of us this morning	8:24
	will go forth out of this place with new vision	8:27
	to see the truth of Jesus' message,	8:33
	to understand what is really important in our life	8:36
	and to know that that vision is possible	8:43
	as a gift of God,	8:47
	amen.	8:52
	(light organ music)	8:56
	(choir singing)	9:22
-	Let us unite in the historic confession	11:15
	of the Christian faith.	11:18
	I believe in God the Father Almighty,	11:21
	maker of heaven and earth,	11:24
	and in Jesus Christ His only son our Lord,	11:27
	who is conceived by the Holy Spirit,	11:30
	born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,	11:33
	was crucified dead, and buried.	11:38
	The third day he rose from the dead,	11:41
	He ascended into the heaven	11:43
	and sitteth at the right hand	11:45
	of the God the Father Almighty.	11:47
	From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.	11:49
	I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church,	11:53
	the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,	11:58
	the resurrection of the body,	12:02
	and the life everlasting, amen.	12:04
	The Lord be with you.	12:08
	Let us pray.	12:11
	Gracious God,	12:25
	having come into your presence,	12:29
	having heard your word,	12:30
	having sensed your touch upon our disordered lives,	12:35
	we now intercede for others.	12:39
	We pray that the world may live in peace.	12:43
	We intercede for the victims of violence,	12:48
	those who suffer because of war,	12:52
	the victims of terrorism,	12:55
	the sufferers under Apartheid.	12:59
	We pray for all ministers and teachers of the church,	13:04
	that they may be faithful servants of the Gospel,	13:09
	leading others to your truth and strengthening their faith.	13:13
	Particularly we pray for the ministry	13:19
	of your servant, Dennis Campbell,	13:21
	giving thanks for his work in the training	13:23
	of future ministers of the gospel and leaders of the church.	13:26
	We pray for the leaders of this nation,	13:32
	asking for them the patience to pursue	13:36
	peaceful means of settling international crises	13:38
	and courage in the face of shrill calls	13:43
	for retribution and violence.	13:45
	We pray for those who are sick,	13:50
	those who are facing serious surgery,	13:53
	particularly those who may be doing so	13:55
	at Duke University Hospital.	13:58
	We pray for those who are confronting	14:02
	the choice of whether or not	14:03
	to place someone they love within a nursing home	14:05
	or an institution for the mentally ill.	14:10
	As the Lord who reached out and healed,	14:15
	we know your compassion	14:17
	for those who suffer in body or spirit.	14:19
	We pray for the poor, the millions who are hungry,	14:24
	countless mothers who see their children	14:30
	perish from disease,	14:32
	brothers and sisters for whom this good world	14:35
	is reduced to unending misery.	14:38
	And may we be so bold, O God, to pray even for ourselves.	14:43
	Do not send us away sorrowful, O God,	14:51
	blessed as we are with many possessions	14:54
	and great material wellbeing.	14:57
	Teach us the limits of our affluence,	15:00
	the impotence of our power, and we shall be wise.	15:04
	Train our eyes blinded by our selfishness	15:11
	upon the needs of others.	15:15
	Thus may it be possible even for us	15:19
	to know the things of eternity,	15:23
	which make for life, amen.	15:26
	As a forgiven and a reconciled people,	15:31
	let us offer ourselves and our gifts	15:34
	to the God who has offered so much to us.	15:38
	(somber organ music)	15:45
	(choir singing)	16:42
	(uplifting organ music)	21:36
	(choir singing)	21:52
-	O God, it is right to give you thanks and praise,	22:49
	not content to let us be.	22:53
	You came to us, exposed our faults, God,	22:55
	filled us with visions of possible impossibilities,	22:59
	judged us, loved us,	23:04
	and prodded us to be all that we could be by your grace.	23:06
	Therefore, we offer these gifts,	23:10
	and we offer ourselves as reasonable	23:13
	and holy surrenders to your will	23:16
	in our world.	23:21
	Our Father who art in heaven,	23:23
	hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come,	23:26
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	23:30
	Give us this day our daily bread,	23:34
	and forgive us our trespasses,	23:37
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	23:39
	And lead us not into temptation,	23:43
	but deliver us from evil,	23:45
	for thine is the kingdom and the power	23:48
	and the glory forever, amen.	23:51
	(upbeat organ music)	24:00
	(choir singing)	24:33
	(upbeat organ music)	26:59
-	The grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,	27:37
	the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit	27:40
	be with you now and always.	27:44
	(upbeat organ music)	27:54

Item Info

Title:

Dennis M. Campbell - "The Impossible Possibility" (October 13, 1985)

Description:

Focuses on the question of wealth as a matter of of faith and culture. Judaism, Christianity and Islam wrestle with the issue on how to live within a secular world while still honoring your faith. How do we live in the world and yet live a Christian life? (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “This Gospel passage forces us to come to terms with the difficult question, in what way or to what degree is Christ relevant to the situation in which we must live?”

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Date:

October 13, 1985

Speaker:

Campbell, Dennis M.

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Duke University. Chapel

Identifier:

UA.17.01.0003 CS-0289
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