Publicado por HarperSanFrancisco September 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0060730684 ISBN 13: 9780060730680
Librería: Colorado's Used Book Store, Englewood, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Light edge and cover wear. Unmarked pages. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers.
Publicado por HarperSanFrancisco September 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0060576472 ISBN 13: 9780060576479
Librería: Eighth Day Books, LLC, Wichita, KS, Estados Unidos de America
Paper Back. Condición: New.
Publicado por HarperSanFrancisco September 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0062517538 ISBN 13: 9780062517531
Librería: Eighth Day Books, LLC, Wichita, KS, Estados Unidos de America
Paper Back. Condición: New. The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. -- Shakespeare, King Lear Perhaps no contemporary Christian author has so fruitfully, brazenly and vulnerably plumbed the conundrums of our lived experience and the assertions of our faith as searchingly as Frederick Buechner. Through all his sermons, novels, essays and memoirs, flowing from his conversion upon hearing God and laughter in the same sentence, through painstaking attention to as difficult a life as any of us live, he has held to his work of faith and of ''listening to his life.'' Here he listens to some other lives which have powerfully impinged on his own, examining four great writers: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mark Twain, G.K. Chesterton and William Shakespeare. He explores their greatest works in their darkest hours and the Job-like laid-bareness of the struggles of faith and honesty in the face of our human condition. As he concludes: ''Take heart, I heard them say, even at the unlikeliest moments. Fear not. Be alive. Be merciful. Be human. And most unlikely of all: Even when you can't believe, even if you don't believe at all, even if you shy away at the sound of his name, be Christ.'' Buechner only gets better and better.