Background
Buechner, Carl Frederick was born on July 11, 1926 in New York City. Son of Carl Frederick and Katherine (Kuhn) Buechner.
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Frederick Buechner has long been a kindred spirit to those who find elements of doubt as constant companions on their journey of faith. He is a passionate writer and preacher who can alter lives with a simple phrase. Buechner's words, both written and spoken, have the power to revolutionize and revitalize belief and faith. He reveals the presence of God in the midst of daily life. He faces and embraces difficult questions and doubt as essential components of our lives, rather than as enemies that destroy us. "Listen to your life!" is his clarion call. This theme pervades this definitive collection of sermons, delivered throughout Buechner's lifetime. Presented chronologically, they provide a clear picture of the development of his theology and thinking. Reflecting Buechner's exquisite gift for storytelling and his compassionate pastor's heart, Secrets in the Dark will inspire laughter, hope, and bring great solace. Turn the pages and rediscover what it means to be thoughtful about faith. See why this renowned writer has been quoted in countless pulpits and beloved by Americans for generations.
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( Award-winning author Frederick Buechner retells the sto...)
Award-winning author Frederick Buechner retells the stories of the Gospels and reminds us that to see Jesus afresh is to be changed and challenged and put back on our feet. The Faces of Jesus is a distinctive and warmhearted look at this person, this God, this teacher, this wanderer, this man of suffering.
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A Room Called Remember brings together some of Buechner's finest writings on faith, love, and the power of words in the form of essays, addresses, and sermons. Here Buechner explores autobiography as theology, offers exhilarating reflections on biblical passages, and leads us into the "room called Remember," that "still room within us all where the past lives on as part of the present,...where with patience, with clarity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived."
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(Explore the world of phonics with Kasey. Learn about lett...)
Explore the world of phonics with Kasey. Learn about letter sounds, fish for consonants, play the spin the vowels game, and sing a rhyming song. Teaches: * Consonant sounds * Long & Short Vowel Sounds * Letter Blends * Rhyming Words * Word Association * Singing & Taking Turns
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In this second book of his popular lexical trilogy, Frederick Buechner profiles more than 125 of the Bible's most holy and profane people -- and one whale. In his lively and witty prose, Buechner brings to life such moments from scripture as: • Adam's pangs of regret for a remembered Eden • Delilah's last glimpse of Samson as they dragged him away • Lazarus's first impressions upon rising from the dead To read Peculiar Treasures is to realize that many of these legendary figures are not who we thought they were. But they are -- in their human dreams,ambitions, and imperfections -- very much like us.
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With eloquence, candor, and simplicity, a celebrated author tells the story of his father's alcohol abuse and suicide and traces the influence of this secret on his life as a son, father, husband, minister, and writer.
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A Christmas gift books for adults and teens, this is a moving account of a child growing out of mystery and into understanding through the death of his father. Ending at Christmas, the hope of the season is the book's true meaning. "What I wanted to do in this little book was to convey as directly and completely and as honestly as I could what it felt like to be the ten year old child I was at the time of my father's death in 1936." This story of Teddy Schroeder and his sister Bean is a moving account of a child growing out of mystery (the mysteries of the world) into understanding. As a novel it is simple and evocative, focused on the inner feelings more than outward events. The big event is the death of the narrator's father and what it does to Teddy and Bean. The book ends at Christmas, and while it is not about Christmas the hope of the season is the book's meaning (and the author's intention). At the end, when the children are in church, they sing from the hymn "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" the lines: "This holy tide of Christmas doth bring redeeming grace." Teddy reflects on this, what the word "tide" means and whether it is about the beach where they had been with their father. Bean asks Teddy, "What is the tide of Christmas if you think you're so smart?" and Teddy replies: "It's the high tide, Bean. It's the Wizard of Oz tide. It's the one that brings you home." "Everybody?" Bean said. "Everybody," Teddy said. "Then he said just one more thing even though he nearly didn't because he was afraid it might make Bean cry the way she had been crying the time he found her under the bridge table. 'Even Daddy,' he said." -- From the author's introduction This book was originally published as The Wizard's Tide.
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( In these original essays, short stories, and poems, the...)
In these original essays, short stories, and poems, the beloved Frederick Buechner reflects on the moments of transcendence in the midst of his daily existence. In a myriad of commonplace activities, he finds the presence of the divine, and he elegantly describes these persons, events, and observations, nimbly transporting readers into these realities. With his masterly crafted prose, Buechner edifies, inspires, and offers a timeless model for approaching our human experience.
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(Daily meditations taken from the works of an acclaimed no...)
Daily meditations taken from the works of an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and preacher who has articulated what he sees with a freshness and clarity and energy that hails our stultified imaginations.
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(In Wishful Thinking, the first book in his much-loved lex...)
In Wishful Thinking, the first book in his much-loved lexical trilogy, Frederick Buechner puts the language of God, the universe, and the human spirit under his wry linguistic microscope. In his often ironic and always keen-sighted reflections on such terms as agnostic, envy, love, and sin, he invited us to look at theses everyday words in new and enlightening ways. Freshly revised and expanded for this edition, Wishful Thinking is a "beguiling" Time adventure in language for the restless believer, the doubter, and all who love words.
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(These 14 eclectic pieces explore faith and fiction, offer...)
These 14 eclectic pieces explore faith and fiction, offer a novelist's view of the Bible, and comment on what Buechner believes the church is called by God to become. Buechner is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including Godric (nominated for a Pulitzer Prize) and Telling Secrets.
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(Awry and thought-provoking jaunt through the spiritual te...)
Awry and thought-provoking jaunt through the spiritual terrain of our everyday language -- a lexion of uncommon insight to jar the mind and nourish the soul. "I think of faith as a kind of whistling in the dark, because in much the same way," writes Buechner, "it helps to give us courage and to hold the shadows at bay."
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One of the brightest lights in late-twentieth-century literature, Frederick Buechner has published more than twenty-five works of fiction and nonfiction that continue to dazzle critics and readers alike, adding continuously to the ranks of his fiercely loyal following. On the Road with the Archangel is sure to continue this tradition with its powerful blend of humor, artistry, and insight into the nature of the human and the divine. Inspired by events in the apocryphal Book of Tobit, from the second century B.C., this is the magical tale of two families brought together, as no mere coincidence, by the devilishly clever archangel Raphael. One is the family of Tobit, a virtuous man who can no longer support his wife and son because of Raguel, the quiet, devoted father of Sarah whose pact with the demon Asmodeus has left her life in tragic shambles. Assuming human form, Raphael appears before Tabias, Tobit's devoted son, to help him retrieve his father's fortune hidden in a faraway city. Together, they embark on a miraculous journey in search of the answers to both families' prayers--a journey that is made challenging and delightful by Rapheal's artful efficiency. On the Road with the Archangel is a masterful combination of fluid writing, lyrical storytelling, and ancient truth blended with modern wisdom. And beneath it all lies a subtle, glowing meditation on the nature of the Holy. Hailed as "one of our most original storytellers" (USA Today), Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Frederick Buechner has written an extraordinary new novel that shines with the mystery and wonder of the divine. Drawn from the ancient apocryphal Book of Tobit, On the Road with the Archangel unravels the tale of a eccentric blind father and his somewhat bumbling song who journeys to seek his family's lost treasure. Narrated by the wry and resourceful archangel Raphael, Buencher's tale is a pure delight, alive with vivid characters, delightful adventures and wondrous revelations.
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(The Return of Ansel Gibbs opens with a news conference an...)
The Return of Ansel Gibbs opens with a news conference and an explanation from the central character, a public figure, a politician of sorts....Buechner's central character in the novel is a man of words, a man of civilization and sophistication, a man of breeding and sensitivity. Ansel Gibbs, the VIP, has been appointed to a cabinet post by the president. The nomination precipitates a personal crisis for Gibbs, who has been in retirement for two years on his farm in Montana and now must journey to Washington for Senate hearings to confirm his appointment....The novel is another consideration of the courage required to assert one's humanity in the modern world. For Ansel Gibbs, the central word is "ambivalence." Winner of the Rosenthal Award 1959.
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An acclaimed author interweaves history and legend to re-create the life of a complex man of faith fifteen hundred years ago. Winner of the 1987 Christianity and Literature Book Award for Belles-Lettres.
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Lion Country is a richly entertaining book, sometimes very funny, sometimes very moving, and always deeply suggestive of meaning somewhere beyond itself. Its first-person narrator, Antonio Parr, is a thirty-four-year-old ex-teacher, ex-sculptor in scrap iron, ex-would-be-novelist who on impulse answers the ad of a religious diploma mill. He receives his ordination through the mail, allowing him tax and other advantages, and eventually meets the ebullient and wonderfully ambiguous head of the organization, Leo Bebb. Antonio's twin, Miriam, is dying of a bone disease in Manhattan, but he is so fascinated as well as repelled by Bebb that he seeks him out in Armadillo, Florida - the site of The Church of Holy Love, Inc. - where most of the novel's action takes place. It is here that he meets, among others, Brownie, Bebb's peculiarly seraphic assistant; Hermon Redpath, a septuagenarian satyr whom Bebb hopes to make his patron; and Bebb's twenty-one-year-old Daughter, Sharon, with whom Antonio Parr falls in love. In addition to conferring degrees in almost anything on almost anybody who can meet the fee, Bebb turns out to have been tried earlier on charges of sexual exhibitionism; and as Parr's knowledge of him deepens, together with his knowledge of himself, their destinies grow curiously linked. Although Mr. Buechner writes with the same brilliance of language and imagery as in his earlier novels and is concerned as always with the depth and complexity of human life, Lion Country stands apart from his earlier work. There is a lightness of touch here, a sensuousness, a feeling of celebration, that should make him accessible to a far larger circle of readers. Leo Bebb is perhaps the strongest example of a recurring Buechner theme: the sinner and the saint rolled together into one. As Dale Brown puts it: "Is it possible that the unlikeliest of vessels, the obvious shyster, that round ball of contradictions and failings, could function as an instrument of grace?"...
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Buechner, Carl Frederick was born on July 11, 1926 in New York City. Son of Carl Frederick and Katherine (Kuhn) Buechner.
Graduate, Lawrenceville School, 1943. AB, Princeton University, 1947. Bachelor's Degree, Union Theological Seminary, 1958.
Doctor of Divinity, Virginia Episcopalian Seminary, 1982. Doctor of Divinity, Lafayette University, 1984. Doctor of Letters, Lehigh University, 1987.
Doctor of Letters, Cornell College, 1989. Doctor of Divinity, Yale University, 1990. Doctor of Divinity, Sewanee University, 1993.
Doctor of Letters, Susquehanna University, Wake Forest University, 1998. Doctor of Letters, Wake Forest University, 2000.
Teacher English, Lawrenceville School, 1948-1953; teacher creative writing, summer sessions, New York University, 1954-1955; department chairman religion, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1958-1967; school minister, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1960-1967; William Belden Noble lecturer, Harvard, 1969; Russell lecturer, Tufts, 1971; Lyman Beecher lecturer, Yale University, 1977; Harris lector, Bangor Seminary, 1979; Smyth lecturer, Columbia Seminary, 1981. Lecturer Trinity Institute, 1990.
(One of the brightest lights in late-twentieth-century lit...)
(With eloquence, candor, and simplicity, a celebrated auth...)
(Daily meditations taken from the works of an acclaimed no...)
(In Wishful Thinking, the first book in his much-loved lex...)
( Award-winning author Frederick Buechner retells the sto...)
(These 14 eclectic pieces explore faith and fiction, offer...)
( In these original essays, short stories, and poems, the...)
( A Room Called Remember brings together some of Buechner...)
(A Christmas gift books for adults and teens, this is a mo...)
(Awry and thought-provoking jaunt through the spiritual te...)
( In this second book of his popular lexical trilogy, Fre...)
(Lion Country is a richly entertaining book, sometimes ver...)
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Trustee Barlow School, 1965-1971. With Army of the United States, 1944-1946. Member National Council Churches (commission on literature 1954-1957), Council Religion in Indiana Schools (regional chairman 1958-1963), Presbytery Northern New England, Century Association, University Club (New York City).
Married Judith Friedrike Merck, April 7, 1956. Children: Katherine, Dinah, Sharman.