A Simplicity of Faith
My Experience in Mourning
Series: William Stringfellow Library
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About this book
Through the course of Stringfellow's dialogue with grief, he teaches us that bereavement can be a special source of inner peace. We discover that to know life in its fullest is to know and face death.
'A Simplicity of Faith' is a spiritual odyssey of rare intensity. It is a convincing argument that biography, reflected upon, becomes theology. Though in many aspects focused on death, it is a powerful statement of what it means to be totally alive.
Praise for this book
In this stirring chronicle of death within community, grief becomes the somber flippancy of the clown and the account of mourning Promethean entertainment. Through it all we learn of the Word.
--Will D. Campbell, author of 'Up to Our Steeples in Politics'
It is, I believe, the best book that he has ever written . . . he penetrates so deeply into his personal experience of mourning that he is able to make universal judgments. I'm reminded . . . of the writings of Solzhenitsyn. . . . He obviously knows how to write what he thinks--and to write it in such a way that anyone can understand both his experience and his theology.
--Rt. Rev. John B. Coburn, DD, the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
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