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This Study Guide consists of approximately 21 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Sacred Journey; a Memoir of Early Days.
A close analysis of Lewis‘s autobiography Surprised by Joy (1955) and Buechner‘s first memoir The Sacred Journey (1983) reveals similarities (and differences) in the backgrounds of the authors and their experiences and expressions of faith. Allen, Victoria S. ―Sacred Journeys: C.S. Lewis and Frederick Buechner.‖.
- Victoria S. Allen
- 2008
The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days is an autobiography by author Frederick Buechner, the first of a four part series. Published in 1982, the work describes the author's life from his childhood up until his conversion to Christianity in 1953, at the age of twenty-seven.
In-depth accounts of patterns of pilgrimage ranging from Hindu practices to a comparison of Catholic and Baptist pilgrimage in Haiti and Trinidad, to a narration of a Maori sacred journey, provide valuable comparative information.
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- Alan Morinis
Jan 1, 1982 · This short memoir is actually a spiritual autobiography of Buechner's early years. He divides the first quarter of his life into three chapters: Once Below a Time, Once Upon a Time, and Beyond Time. The first chapter is the innocence of childhood when time lacks true meaning and seems to be endless.
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- Frederick Buechner
Feb 5, 2021 · Summary. Pilgrimage has become an increasingly popular object of study, and it continues to large numbers of participants. One way of providing comparative analysis – thinking across cultural and religious contexts – is to divide the topic up into a number of key components, such as “place,” “movement,” and “motivation.”.
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Nov 28, 2021 · By Frederick Buechner. Honesty, mystery, and certainty share a warm embrace in Buechner's The Sacred Journey. Buechner, now 95, wrote The Sacred Journey in his early fifties, a decade after The Alphabet of Grace.
