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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.
Buechner's works published in the late 1990s and early 2000s suggest a preoccupation with Shakespeare's late romances. In an interview given for the San Diego Weekly Reader in 1997, Buechner revealed his own desire to write novels similar to the late works of Shakespeare, such as The Tempest and The Winter's Tale, having reached the age of ...
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 ...
In her 1988 study, Frederick Buechner: novelist of the lost and found, Marjorie Casebier McCoy claims that the novel ‘display[s] the virtuoso talent’ of Buechner's earlier work. McCoy is especially appreciative of the intertextuality of The Entrance to Porlock , noting that its ‘artful retelling of The Wizard of Oz ’ is ‘related with ...
Laughter in a Genevan Gown: The Works of Frederick Buechner 1970–1980. (1983) (ISBN 9780802819697) Marjorie Casebier McCoy. Frederick Buechner: Novelist and Theologian of the Lost and Found. (1988) (ISBN 9780060653293) Victoria S. Allen. Listening to Life: Psychology and Spirituality in the Writings of Frederick Buechner.
Brendan is the eleventh novel by the American author and theologian, Frederick Buechner. It was first published in 1987 by Atheneum , New York, and it won the Christianity and Literature Book Award for Belles-Lettres in the same year.
As with Buechner's previous three memoirs – The Sacred Journey (1982), Now and Then (1983), and Telling Secrets (1991) – The Eyes of the Heart discusses many of the themes that have come to be associated with the work of Frederick Buechner: faith, tragedy, the extraordinary nature of the ordinary, and, as Buechner scholar Dale Brown puts it, "the big idea that runs like a steady current ...
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 ...