Gundy Scattering Point

The World in a Mennonite Eye
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8717-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Creative non-fiction by a Mennonite poet that blends the history of the Amish and Mennonites, family history, and his own life story to look at how he might live in harmony with the Mennonite ideal to 'live in the world but not of it.'

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gundy, Jeff

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Cathedrals, Churches, Caves: Notes on Architecture, History, and Worship
2. Fantasia with Raspberries, Baby Chicks, Wine and Roses
3. Scattering Point
4. Scatter Plots: Depression, Silence, and Mennonite Margins
5. The Notebook in My Back Pocket
6. Where We Live: Two Scenes from the Black Swamp
7. The Sparrow in the Mead Hall: On Birds, Souls, and the World
8. "Would You Have Left All This for Waldo?": Notes on a Partial Pilgrimage
Notes
Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Jeff Gundy is Professor of English at Bluffton College. He is the author of A Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara, as well as three books of poetry, Rhapsody with Dark Matter: Poems; Flatlands; and Inquiries: Poems.