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Cargando... Spider in a Tree (2013)por Susan Stinson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Set in Northamption, Mass in the 1740s, the novel elucidates the passions of the Great Awakening and its effects on the lives of the community. Johnathan Edwards and his family are at the center of controversies about doctrines of faith. Beyond being a story of a tragic hero, the book details many aspects of daily life, including cooking, medical/herbal cures, the perils of illness, and the lives of the enslaved. The characters in this book have almost no other language to describe their interior life than that of the fundamentalist religion of the community and all is seen in shades of sin and grace and openness to god. In a demanding northern landscape offering sparse entertainments religion is it. And it is presented quite organically and believably with out requiring belief or empathy from the reader. An excellent historical in that, for me, it presented a truly different mental landscape, though that might not be the case for a reader who came from a conservative Christian sect. The author does hit some false historical notes on costume, but that's my thing. An oddball little gem of a book about puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards in 18th-century Massachusetts, and his battles over orthodoxy in the church. I like books about faith, and people's struggles and glories with it, and this a great example of the genre. Stinson clearly drew a lot from Edwards's own writings and tight research, which sometimes makes itself obvious, but more often helps set the stage for a believable series of struggles on the part of her characters: Edwards and his large family, including his beloved and devout wife Sarah, their relatives and fellow Northampton townspeople, and a tight-knit circle of slaves. I've heard of fire-and-brimstone preaching and the puritans, of course, but this brought the concept to life in a vivid and human way. Slow paced but lovely. Pair this one with a book I have sitting on my desk at work, The World Is Great, and I Am Small: A Bug's Prayer for Mindfulness. Found via a Lithub feature, 26 Books From the Last Decade that More People Should Read, recommended by Elizabeth McCracken. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"In his famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards compared a person dangling a spider over a hearth to God holding a sinner over the fires of hell. Here, spiders and insects preach back. No voice drowns out all others: Leah, a young West African woman enslaved in the Edwards household; Edwards's young cousins Joseph and Elisha, whose father kills himself in fear for his soul; and Sarah, Edwards' wife, who is visited by ecstasy. Ordinary grace, human failings, and extraordinary convictions combine in unexpected ways to animate this New England tale"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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