Priests to Each Other

By Carlyle Marney

Book Overview

Is the role of clergy best defined by power or by servanthood? Does the laity have a substantive or a decorative place in the mission of the church? Will the clergy let go of the church and trust it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962845523
• ISBN13: 9780962845529
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Pub
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 5.3" x 0.3"

Customer Reviews

The rubber hits the road

The founder and director of Interpreter's House, writes to help equip Christians as priests and co-redeemers with Christ. His chapters begin with questions related to the lives Christians live and the resources they need to do the work of "priesting." This is an excellent work, unpacking and showing the full application of the doctrine of "the priesthood of all believers." In that sense it's a perfect follow-up to his "The Recovery of the Person" (check that one out too!) Super stuff! Highly recommended.

A Fierce but Compassionate Saint!

The first Review is most appealing and touching! Since I never got to hear Carlyle Marney in person, I must be content to hear many of his sermons on tape. I name several of his best students and co-workers like James Berry who was his Minister of Music in both Churches! His influence was felt most strongly in his Sister Evelyn, my saintly Aunt Della Sweet, an admiring member of his first East Tenn College Church, who was his best Sunday dinner cook! My great Pastor and Mentor Carl J Giers knew him in Seminary and loved to quote him! John Claypool speaks of his long influence upon his life and writing mostly because of his compassionate touch after losing his daughter to Leukemia. I could easily add 6-7 more good names. This superb Cecil Sherman Edition, followed Marney's "Structures of Prejudice" in 1961 and "The Recovery of the Person in 1963. There is no earthly way that I could sum-up his writings and sermons in one essay or review. But to say that his devoutly spiritual influence will be forever etched upon the lives of myself, my wife's harpist friend, Kaylynn Davis, a youthful admirer in Austin, Texas and persons like Jim Berry, John Claypool, Tom Conley, etc. When one reads Marney or listens to his taped sermons you dare not let your mind lay-back in an easy chair! Not only was he the best-read Pastor of his times, but you will see and hear listing of names, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Karl Barth, Martin Buber, W O Carver, Kierkegaard, N T Wright. In this wonderful sample of the razor-sharp mind and spirit of Marney we are arrested by instant relating of creative minds and their connecting of sociology, theology and psychology. When Prof Brueggemann and his wife, Mary first heard Marney on their marriage trip to Montreat, he fondly remembers many of these thoughts I have only repeated. For me as perennial student, I'm convinced that the melting pot of my growing Faith has been refined and refurbished by Carlyle Marney as continuously as by Prof Bruegge. For my money, time, efforts and thought, "that's a pretty big Order!" (Marney) I cannot miss re-reading this book again and again! From an old but an admiring student... retired Chaplain Fred W Hood

A bright Light for those lost in religion

I spent a day with Marney years ago, and his book Priest to Each Other began to help heal my "religion" wounds. He goes to the heart of what "Christ" can be when seen though the eyes of compassion. This book made "Christ" and "Church" a verb to me, and helped me form my "personal church" were encounters with people and all of life, each, create moments of "service and love."For those lost in the hurt, hatred, and betrayal of Christian religion, especially Baptist, this book is a bright light of love and healing, as well as looking the destructive Christianity right in the eye. Marney was a "look in the eye" kind of guy, who was able to tell people what he truthfully saw in them, and they end up hugging him. He had a huge ego, he smoked a pipe, and gave me one of my first adult lessons: "Never get in a place, where they got something, you have to have. If you do, you lose your integrity. And, what more does one have anyway, but their word."Marney to me was a Saint. A fierece Saint. This book makes you laugh, cry, and can open a vision of life, that is both hopeful and healing----and, then read the Bible, and a new voice will emerge from those old words. Most of the established Baptists spoke badly of him and his message when he was alive. Now, I continually here him quoted by the same group, and their children. He just has a way with people, to get them to look at their own selves, and what is really behind their "crusades" in their lives--and helps them choose to grow, mature, and let go of that speck in their own eye.Give this book, and a "Marney eye view" a try...