Reading Buechner - Exploring the Work of a Master Memoirist, Novelist, Theologian, and Preacher

Foreword by Makoto Fujimura

Introduction: How Reading Buechner Changed My Life



Part I: Frederick Buechner as Memoirist


1. The Sacred Journey: The Universal Particular

2. Now and Then: Forrest Gump's Feather

3. Telling Secrets: A Deeper Honesty

4. The Eyes of the Heart: Remembering the Lost and Found



Part II: Frederick Buechner as Novelist


5. Godric: A Twelfth-Century Sinner-Saint

6. The Son of Laughter: Heels, Laughter, and the Fear



Part III: Frederick Buechner as Popular Theologian


7. Wishful Thinking: Renewing Tired Words

8. Peculiar Treasures: People We Thought We Knew



Part IV: Frederick Buechner as Preacher


9. Telling the Truth: Tears with Great Laughter

10. Secrets in the Dark: The Wonder of Words

11. Reading Buechner Today

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Appendix: An Annotated Bibliography of Frederick Buechner's Books

Notes

Index

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• Religião e crenças
• Literatura: história e crítica
• Biografia: literária
• Cristianismo
• Assuntos religiosos representados em arte
• Estudos literários: desde ~ 1900

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