Do You Hear What I Hear?: An Unreligious Writer Investigates Religious Calling

By Minna Proctor and Minna Zallman Proctor

Book Overview

At the age of thirty, Minna Proctor, the daughter of a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, had had no spiritual experience apart from a half-hearted bat mitzvah. Then her father, a sixtyish university professor, announced his intention to become an Episcopal priest. He had, it turned out, a higher calling. But what was that, and why had Minna failed to notice it? And why does the Church-which summarily rejected Minna's father-make it so difficult to become a priest? At once a wry document of filial love, an erudite work of cultural analysis, and a spirited intellectual quest based on interviews with her father, clergy, and religious scholars as well as readings of classic faith narratives, Do You Hear What I Hear? is frank, provocative, and fascinating. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143036572
• ISBN13: 9780143036579
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.7" x 0.6" x 5.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher