Grace upon Grace: Reflections on the Meaning of Life

Abstract

In his familiar and much-loved poetic style, Johan Cilliers takes up his pen like a walking stick, leads the way and invites his readers on a journey. On route, he explores the landscape of the meaning of life by visiting three places: where we come from, where we are going and who we are. The grace for humankind he finds in this space is well timed, given the Covid-19 pandemic, as people are now more than ever longing for meaning and in need of the comforting message of Grace upon grace. With this monograph, he completes his trilogy and, just like A Space for Grace and Timing Grace, Grace upon Grace is an important theological as well as a beautiful achievement.

Pandemic homiletics?

“…According to Cilliers (2020), there are a variety of methods for sermon analysis, for example the hermeneutic model developed by Vaessen (1997), the combination of the Heidelberg model and the Stark model by De Klerk, De Wet, and Letsosa (2011), and the grounded theory model for inductive analysis of sermons in order to develop a theory from the data (Pleizier 2010).…”