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Brendan by Frederick Buechner
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it was amazing
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I read this book at a critical time in my life. I had just become Greek Orthodox after having been an Evangelical and then Lutheran Christian.

This book came at a time when I was having trouble with hagiography (biographical writings about the saints focused on their ministries) and its preference to see only the holiest aspects of a person's life. Perhaps I am too much a product of my culture, but I'm a person who needs to see how a saint has overcome his or her failures to become the saint we now venerate.

Brenden is not hagiography, but it allows me to imagine a man, full of spiritual promise, who cannot see in himself what everybody else assumes of him. Moreover, this is one of the first books I've read that treats on Christ-as-the-poor.

It's a book I hate to recommend, as I am afraid people will not find it as moving as I have. Yet it's also a book I want my closest friends to read.
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January 1, 2007 – Finished Reading
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message 1: by Pat (new) - rated it 5 stars

Pat Loughery Buechner's novel Godric was very helpful to me in deconstructing hagiography. Brendan was a better novel, but Godric (stick it out till the end!) was quite illuminating in this way especially.


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