Plain Sermons, Preached at Archbishop Tenison's Chapel, Regent Street

These sermons come to us from the heart of Victorian London, preached from the pulpit of Archbishop Tenison's Chapel on Regent Street. Cowan addresses his congregation with the earnest moral urgency that defined mid-19th century Anglicanism, grappling with the tension that his listeners would have felt deeply: how to live a life of genuine faith in a world increasingly dominated by commerce, ambition, and secular concern. His subjects faith, the dangers of worldliness, the practice of confession are not abstract theological questions but pressing matters of personal salvation. These are sermons written for people who took the state of their souls seriously and who wanted their preacher to speak to them plainly about it. For readers interested in Victorian religious life, the texture of 19th century Anglican spirituality, or simply the literary pleasure of encountering a confident religious voice from another era, these discourses offer an intimate window into how our ancestors understood the stakes of belief.