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Books (P43511.0000) The Book of Buechner: A Journey through His Writings
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| Author: |
Dale Brown |
| Publisher: |
Westminster John Knox Press, 2007 |
| Length: |
394 pages |
| Heading: |
035 — Christian Life
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| Subjects: |
Christian Life; Novelists, American; Theology |
| # Copies: |
1 |
| ISBN/ISSN: |
9780664231132
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| Description: |
"Buechner is 'indirectly' religious from his first novel to his most recent. His ponderings on the possibility of grace, which he offers with neither sentimentality nor simplicity, may explain both the chariness of the literary intelligentsia toward him as well as the increasing embrace of religious audiences now coming to him as they once came to [C. S. Lewis]. Buechner's attention to the ambiguities of human existence is the persistent chord echoing throughout his work, and the infrequent glimmering of hope is the persistent conclusion. Doubt and darkness stalk all of his major characters, and their emergence into occasional light is laced with enormous struggle. Such thematic preoccupations, when combined with Buechner's increasingly lucid and engaging style, suggest that Buechner belongs in any catalog of significant contemporary writers. In discussions of important voices in the last 50 years of American literature, Buechner deserves a place at the table." |
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None specified.
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