Persuade Us to Rejoice: The Liberating Power of Fiction

by Robert McAfee Brown

Book Overview

Studying such literary figures as Frederick Buechner, Albert Camus, George Dennison, Ursula Le Guin, C. S. Lewis, Alan Paton, Ignazio Silone, Alice Walker, Elie Wiesel, and Charles Williams, Robert McAfee Brown illustrates "the liberating power of fiction" by enabling the reader to enter their worlds. Brown asserts that although there is no faith that offers ironclad guarantees against future struggles, the wisdom of these authors can help us toward...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664253814
• ISBN13: 9780664253813
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"