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A TREMOR OF BLISS; Contemporary Writers on the Saints
by Elie, Paul (editor)
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- Half cloth in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0151001014
- ISBN 13
- 9780151001019
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New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. Half cloth in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very good. 325 pp. A collection of essays includes the works of John Boswell, Enrique Fernandez, Lawrence Joseph, and Tobias Wolff, and explores contemporary responses to the lives of the saints while describing what they did in the face of despair, social indifference, and historical events.
Synopsis
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
- Elie, Paul (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used - Half cloth in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151001014
- ISBN 13
- 9780151001019
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
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