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Carl Frederick Buechner (/ ˈ b iː k n ər / BEEK-nər; July 11, 1926 – August 15, 2022) was an American author, Presbyterian minister, preacher, and theologian. The author of thirty-nine published books, [ 1 ] his career spanned more than six decades and encompassed many different genres.
Among them are sin, the search for identity, faith, and the supernatural. At the forefront, however, and certainly more so than in any of Buechner’s previous novels, is an investigation of death and ageing: Godric is a very old man as he tells his tale, and old age and the approach of death are very much in the back of his mind throughout.
Buechner debuted several of the pieces featured in The Yellow Leaves at the inauguration of the Buechner Institute at King University (now the Institute for Faith and Culture). [1] Publishers Weekly called the volume 'distinctly elegiac', [2] while the reviewer for the Sewanee Theological Review noted that 'much of the book is about death'. [3]
Literary critic Dale Brown, in his companion to the works of Frederick Buechner, The Book of Buechner, writes that the Bebb tetralogy ‘continues with the questions dominating all of Buechner’s work’. These, he suggests, are: Belief versus unbelief, the ambiguities of life, the nature of sin, human lostness, spiritual homesickness, the ...
Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary, first issued as Whistling in the Dark: An ABC Theologized, is a collection of meditations on faith, Christianity, and theology by Frederick Buechner. It is the third and final instalment of Buechner's lexical trilogy, which includes Wishful Thinking (1973) and Peculiar Treasures (1979).
Critic Dale Brown writes of her that ‘Irma’s story is the darkest of any of Buechner’s characters to this point in his career’. [3] Themes. Written in the years following Buechner's ordination to the ministry, The Final Beast explores many of the themes that became central to the author's future work. It is a meditation on grief, grace ...
Telling the Truth: the Gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale, is a collection of essays by Frederick Buechner on the subject of homiletics. It was first composed for and delivered at the Yale Divinity School Lyman Beecher Lecture series in 1976. [1] Telling the Truth was subsequently published in 1977 by HarperCollins. It is Buechner's ...
Telling Secrets: a memoir (1991), is the third of four partial autobiographies written by Frederick Buechner.Published in 1991, the work considers in depth several scenes and events from the author's life, from his father’s suicide through to his time spent as a visiting professor at Wheaton College.