A Simplicity of Faith

By William Stringfellow

Book Overview

In 1980, lawyer/theologian William Stringfellow experienced the loss of his close friend and companion, poet Anthony Towne. Totally unexpected, Towne's death brought Stringfellow face-to-face with his most personal encounter with grief. These pages eloquently record his year of mourning, thus becoming both a tribute to Towne and a way of celebrating life--past and future. Five of Towne's poems appear here, brilliantly capturing the mood and tone of Stringfellow's text. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597523232
• ISBN13: 9781597523233
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

This is an excellent tribute to a friend .

The book did several things for me as I would expect Stringfellow to do.He challenges the easiness of our supposed faith. He has honest, justified anger at a God who in the silence of our mourning hearts says nothing to us that he/she has not said before.He grieves,he loves.