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A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces
by
Frederick Buechner (Goodreads Author)
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...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
April 10th 1992
by HarperOne
(first published February 1984)
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I bought this book for a college course and recall liking it immensely. I recently ran across it again while digging through some boxes in the pit of despair (a/k/a, my storage unit) and I pulled it out to read again. I'll give a more in-depth update after I've read through.
I really like Buechner and what he has to say but this collection seemed a little disjointed.
This is pretty standard Buechner. Thoughtful, humane, gentle and reverent.
Sermon on the church is one of the best things I have ever read
My all-time favorite Burchner book.
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I'll have to find my copy, but it falls under spirituality and truly gives insight into what it really means to remember something either through sacred ritual or even just recalling to mind.
He makes the point that remembering is more than some sentimental trip of nostalgia down memory lane. In fact, it is bringing something forward into our "here and now," further informing us of just who we are.
He makes the point that remembering is more than some sentimental trip of nostalgia down memory lane. In fact, it is bringing something forward into our "here and now," further informing us of just who we are.
I always find it hard to rate collections of essays. Buechner admits in the beginning that this book is a grab bag, and that's true. A couple of essays were brilliant, presenting ideas that stick with me; a few were dry and boring; most were someplace in the middle.
This book has some great stuff in it, but in all it seems kind of disjointed. This is kind of the point, however, in that it is a collection of all that was never released of his. Overall, this is still Buechner, so it's great, but definitely not one to start on.
I loved this book- the author reviews his life (he is now near the end of it) he looks at the choices he has made and the doubts he still harbors about his faith.
My Intro to Beuchner have enjoyed this reading. He has a thoughtful way of writing.
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Frederick Buechner is a highly influential writer and theologian who has won awards for his poetry, short stories, novels and theological writings. His work pioneered the genre of spiritual memoir, laying the groundwork for writers such as Anne Lamott, Rob Bell and Lauren Winner.
His first book, A Long Day's Dying, was published to acclaim just two years after he graduated from Princeton. He entere...more
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“The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where we have come from and where we are going to, for sifting through the things we have done and the things we have left undone for a clue to who we are and who, for better or worse, we are becoming. But again and again we avoid the long thoughts….We cling to the present out of wariness of the past. And why not, after all? We get confused. We need such escape as we can find. But there is a deeper need yet, I think, and that is the need—not all the time, surely, but from time to time—to enter that still room within us all where the past lives on as a part of the present, where the dead are alive again, where we are most alive ourselves to turnings and to where our journeys have brought us. The name of the room is Remember—the room where with patience, with charity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived.”
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“Somos todos mais místicos do que acreditamos ou queremos crer (...). Temos visto mais do que deixamos transparecer, até para nós mesmos. Seja em momentos de beleza ou dor, seja por meio de alguma reviravolta sutil em nossa vida, ao menos vislumbramos o que cegou os santos; só que, ao contrário dos santos, seguimos em frente como se nada tivesse acontecido. Seguir em frente ciente de que algo aconteceu, apesar de não ter certeza do que foi, nem do que fazer com o que ocorreu, é entrar na dimensão da vida de que trata a palavra religião.”
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