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A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints Hardcover - 1994
by Paul Elie; Paul Elie (Editor); Introduction by Robert Coles
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Few stories are as cherished- and as contested-as the lives of the saints: the joyful St. Francis of Assai, the steadfast St. Joseph, the mystical St. Therese of Lisieux. In this book twenty distinguished writers explore the deep and varying responses the saints inspire in us today. Richard Bausch recalls going with Walker Percy to a church named for St. Thomas Aquinas, where they, like the saint, sought to reconcile reason and faith; Tobias Wolff ponders St. Jean de Brebeuf, a Jesuit missionary whose faithful efforts to spread the Gospel placed him in opposition to Native Americans; Francine Prose celebrates St. Teresa of Avila as a woman whose sense of irony was a virtue as saintly as her prayerfullness. In these eloquent and moving essays, the saints emerge as fascinating paradoxes: like Eliot's St. Thomas a Becket, they have had a "tremor of bliss," but they must fight all-too-mortal battles with despair, social indifference, and harness of heart. By turns historical and personal, contemplative and matter-of-fact, this provocative collection of contemporary writing poses spiritual questions with uncommon intelligence and grace.
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- Title A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints
- Author Paul Elie; Paul Elie (Editor); Introduction by Robert Coles
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 300
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, New York
- Date November 1, 1994
- ISBN 9780151001019 / 0151001014
- Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 7.82 x 5.78 x 1.18 in (19.86 x 14.68 x 3.00 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Christian life - Catholic authors, Christian saints - Cult
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94022332
- Dewey Decimal Code 282.092
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