Life Can Begin Again

Sermons on the Sermon on the Mount

by Helmut Thielicke, translated by John W. Doberstein

Book cover: Life Can Begin Again

Extent: 176 pages

Publisher: The Lutterworth Press

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Thielicke Library

Language: English

Paperback (No longer our product)

(November 2016)

ISBN: 9780718894573

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $32.00

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PDF (Published)

(November 2016)

ISBN: 9780718845056

Price: $23.99

A collection of inspirational addresses taking their themes from the Sermon on the Mount, showing how the Sermon cannot be understood without seeing it in the context of the person and work of Christ.


Christians have always turned to the Sermon on the Mount for inspiration. In Life Can Begin Again, Helmut Thielicke, himself one of the great preachers of the twentieth century, comes to grips with what is often seen as a collection of lovely but impossible ideals. Thielicke makes it clear that the Sermon on the Mount can never be understood if, even for a moment, we forget the person of the Preacher of the Sermon. For without the person and work of Jesus Christ the marvellous words of the Beatitudes and the injunctions that follow them are the most radical and devastating distillation of God’s claims that can be conceived – they leave us in utter hopeless dismay. Only through Christ can these words of the law become the glorious Gospel that promises a new life. Once again, as in his other best-selling works How the World Began and The Prayer that Spans the World, Thielicke brings profoundly biblical religion alive for modern readers.

  • By (author) Helmut Thielicke
  • Translated by John W Doberstein