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Eight American writers from different points of the religious compass discuss how their work is nourished by spiritual concerns and how they try to use those lessons and intuitions in their literature and poetry. The contributors are David Bradley, Frederick Buechner, Allen Ginsberg, Mary Gordon, Hillel Levine, Hugh Nissenson, Jaroslav Pelikan, and Patricia Harnpl. Together, as William Zinsser notes in his introduction, these writers are on "a pilgrimage to find the source of their faith as individuals and their strength as artists". No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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All of these six speeches were interesting. They covered faith traditions as disparate as Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Christian Orthodoxy, African-American Methodism, Judaism, and meditative religions. I especially enjoyed the thoughts shared by two of my literary heroes, Frederick Buechner and Jaroslav Pelikan. I will share my reflections on their reflections below.
Buechner has published in the genres of fiction, theology, and memoir. His clarity at seeing religious practice in life captured my attention as a sixteen year old. I especially appreciate his honesty and his circuitous optimism. He is obviously well schooled, and having converted as an adult, he approaches faith as a peculiarity. Faith always seems like an external object to him and something that he wants to carefully bring evermore within. To borrow phraseology from another author, he is always a resident alien in the Christian world.
Pelikan is a well-known scholar of early Christian history. He writes with precision and conveys his message from his erudition. In this work, he describes the autobiographical nature of scholarship in the lives of Augustine of Hippo, John Henry Newman, and Boethius. Of course, as with all scholars, Pelikan is ultimately speaking of his own experiences and capabilities. He shares how they and he have found writing on religious themes to be nourishing to their souls.
This work is especially relevant to those who produce religious texts professionally – pastors, teachers, and (of course) writers. Despite its age, its messages are fresh to the contemporary reader. I wonder what Zinsser, a great teacher of modern writing, would have done were he offered to hold this seminar in 2020 instead of 1988. Who would he bring on board to relate their experiences? What traditions would garner the most attention? Zinsser has since deceased, and we will never know. Fortunately, these transcripts remain to guide us in our writing and lives today. ( )