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Now and Then: a memoir of vocation (1983), is the second of four partial autobiographies written by Frederick Buechner.Published in 1983, the work describes the author's life from his conversion to Christianity in 1953, at the age of twenty-seven, up to his residency in Vermont at the age of fifty-seven.
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.
Wishful Thinking: a theological ABC, reissued in 1993 as Wishful Thinking: a seeker’s ABC, [1] is a collection of meditations on faith, Christianity, and theology by Frederick Buechner. It is the first of Buechner’s lexical trilogy, which includes Peculiar Treasures (1979) and Whistling in the Dark (1988).
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).
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 ...
Peculiar Treasures: A Biblical Who's Who, is a collection of meditations on the stories of biblical figures, written by Frederick Buechner. It is the second of Buechner's lexical trilogy, which includes Wishful Thinking (1973) and Whistling in the Dark (1988). Published in 1979 by Harper and Row, Peculiar Treasures is Buechner's seventh non ...
The Magnificent Defeat is a collection of meditations on Christianity and faith by Frederick Buechner. It was first conceived as a series of sermons, delivered at the Phillips Exeter Academy throughout 1959. It was subsequently published by Seabury Press, NY, in 1966. The Magnificent Defeat is Buechner’s first non-fiction publication.
Buechner scholar Dale Brown writes that The Alphabet of Grace represents a ‘turning point in Buechner’s career’, and that it is ‘impossible to classify’. [6] Brown ventures that the anthology is the author’s ‘first run at memoir’, [7] a ‘loosening of the tongue, a first draft of the life he will tell in many volumes beginning in the 1980s’. [8]