Buechner, Frederick Additional Author mixed material bibliography New York Seabury Press 1968 monographic en English

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In the first essay in this beautiful collection of reflections on biblical themes, Frederick Buechner reminds us of a famous scene in the film La Dolce Vita: a helicopter is flying overhead, and suspended below it is a statue of Jesus. It flies over a swimming pool where a group of girls lounge; the men flying above circle back, trying to get the girls' phone numbers. All of this is immensely amusing to everyone in the audience, Buechner writes, until the camera zooms in on the statue itself, "until just for a moment the screen is filled with just the bearded face of Christ. For a moment, he continues, the theater was silent, "as if the face were their face somehow, their secret face that they had never seen before but that they knew belonged to them." This, he concludes, "is much of what the Christian faith is." We catch a glimpse of something true, Buechner tells us, and after that glimpse we are never again the same, try as we might to forget it. And the point of these essays, of course, is to remind us. --Doug Thorpe Salvation 2340816423148 Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 234 Bue h E11000032 Non Fiction 234 Bue h-2 E09006140 Non Fiction 234 Bue h WhatsApp_Image_2024-10-03_at_10.21.41.jpeg 35245 2014-11-27 11:54:25 2024-10-03 10:23:36 machine generated