Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner, photo by Carl van Vechten , 1950

Carl Frederick Buechner (born July 11, 1926 in New York City ) is an American author and Reformed theologian and Presbyterian pastor. He wrote 36 books in various fields. He taught creative writing at the Lawrenceville School and many other universities in the USA .

Life

Buechner attended the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey , which he graduated in 1943. He then studied English at Princeton University in Princeton (New Jersey) , where he made his bachelor's degree in 1947 . From 1944 to 1946 he served in the US Army. From 1948 to 1953 he studied at the Lawrenceville School, where he graduated with a master's degree in English. Then he studied theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he did the BD in 1958. In the same year he was ordained a pastor in the United Presbyterian Church .

In the summers of 1953 and 1954 he was a teacher of creative writing at New York University . 1954 to 1958 he worked as a clinic director for employees of a Protestant parish in East Harlem , New York. 1958 to 1967 he was chairman of the religious department, 1960 to 1967 student pastor at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire .

Buechner was a teacher at various universities, for example in 1969 at the William Belden Noble chair at Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , in 1971 at the Russell chair at Tufts University in Medford (Massachusetts) , and in 1976 at the Lyman Beecher chair at Yale Divinity School in New Haven , Connecticut , 1979 at the Harris Chair at Bangor Seminary in Maine , 1981 at the Smyth Chair at Columbia Seminary in New York, 1982 at the Zabriskie Chair at Virginia Seminary in Lynchburg, Virginia and in 1990 at the Trinity Institute .

Buechner has become a versatile religious writer, writing in several genres including fiction , autobiography , essays, sermons, and non-fiction. His 36+ books have been translated into 27 languages. Buechner lives in Vermont .

Honors

  • 1955: O. Henry Award
  • 1959: Rosenthal Award
  • 1982: American Academy Award
  • 1983: Honorary Doctorate from Virginia Theological Seminary
  • 1984: Lafayette College , Easton , Pennsylvania
  • 1985: Honorary Doctorate from Lehigh University , Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
  • 1988: Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa
  • 1990: Yale University
  • Institute of Arts and Letters
  • 2008: Buechner Speaker Series at King College in Bristol , Tennessee. Using Buechner as an example, contemporary overlaps between belief and culture are discovered, examined and also defined.

Frederick Buechner Center

A Frederick Buechner Center was established to share the works of Frederick Buechner with people and churches around the world.

Works

  • Bred In The Bone: An Anthology . 1945.
  • A Long Day's Dying . 1950.
  • The Seasons' Difference . 1952.
  • The Return of Ansel Gibbs . 1958.
  • The Final Beast . 1965.
  • The Magnificent Defeat . 1966.
  • The Hungering Dark . 1968.
  • The Entrance to Porlock . 1970.
  • The Alphabet of Grace . 1970.
  • Lion Country . 1971.
  • Open heart . 1972.
  • Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC . 1973.
  • Love Feast . 1974.
  • Faces of Jesus: A Life Story . 1974.
  • Treasure Hunt . 1977.
  • Telling the Truth: The Gospel As Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale . 1977.
  • Peculiar Treasures: A Biblical Who's Who . 1979.
  • The Book of Bebb . 1979.
  • Godric . 1980.
  • The Sacred Journey . 1982.
  • Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation . 1983.
  • A Room Called Remember . 1984.
  • Brendan . 1987.
  • Whistling in the Dark: An ABC Theologized . 1988.
  • The Wizard's Tide . 1990 (later re-released as The Christmas Tide: A Story . 2005).
  • Telling Secrets, a Memoir . 1991.
  • The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction . 1992.
  • Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner . 1992.
  • The Son of Laughter . 1993.
  • The Longing for Home: Recollections and Reflections . 1996.
  • On the Road With the Archangel . 1997.
  • The Storm . 1998.
  • The Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found . 1999.
  • Speak What We Feel (Not What We Ought to Say): Reflections on Literature and Faith . 2004.
  • Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith . 2004.
  • The Christmas Tide: A Story . 2005 (previously published as The Wizard's Tide . 1990).
  • Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons . 2006, ISBN 978-0-06-084248-2 .
  • The Yellow Leaves: A Miscellany . 2008, ISBN 978-0-664-23276-4 .

German translations

literature

  • Marie-Helene Davies. Laughter in a German Town: The Works of Frederick Buechner 1970–1980 . 1983.
  • Marjorie Casebriar McCoy. Frederick Buechner: Novelist and Theologian of the Lost and Found . 1988.
  • Victoria S. Allen. Listening to Life: Psychology and Spirituality in the Writings of Frederick Buechner . 2002.
  • Dale Brown. The Book of Buechner: A Journey Through His Writings . 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Buechner Institute Biography ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buechnerinstitute.org
  2. ↑ Biographical information on Buechner on biography.jrank.org
  3. ↑ Biographical information on Buechner on biography.jrank.org
  4. ↑ http://www.frederickbuechner.com/
personal data
SURNAME Buechner, Frederick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buechner, Carl Frederick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and Reformed theologian and Presbyterian pastor
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City