In the House of the Lord: Volume 16
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Robert Flynn's second novel tracks a day in the life of Pat Shahan, minister of a Protestant church in a large city. Young, devout, and honest, Shahan seeks revelation--and is offered a revolving neon cross for the church steeple; he seeks vision--and gets a pep talk from the church treasurer. Striving to serve the Lord, he is dragged into a "Great Crusade" which is nothing more than a publicity stunt that ends disastrously. Shahan's day sees him ministering to the sick and dying, pacifying angry parishioners and counseling troubled ones, seeking inspiration for a sermon, trying to calm his mother by phone, and losing patience with his family. Pat Shahan is a thoroughly human minister. Throughout his day--and by extension his ministry--he struggles to balance his faith in Christianity with his doubts about himself and his church. His story gives a pulpit-eye view of organized religion, a view that is occasionally humorous, sometimes affectionate, always open-minded, and ultimately affirmative. "There is darkness in the world," says Shahan, "but there is also light."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0875650872
ISBN13:9780875650876
Release Date:March 1991
Publisher:Texas Christian University Press
Length:212 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"
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Deep Sympathy and Wry Humor
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Take a day in the life of Reverend Shahan, a a Protestant minister, youhful, devoted, searching for full understanding of his faith and his work in a world whose events seem to validate the death of religion. With each validation of God he seeks, he is met with harsh reality and deep disappointment. Filled with events, characters and with emotion, the novel comes directly to terms with religion as it follows Shahan through encounters with his parishioners, his fellow clergy, his family--and his doubts--during the course of a tumultuous, yet typical, day In the House of the Lord. Flynn has an amazing ability to expose our religious hypocrisies and human flaws, while displaying a deep sympathy for the state of humanity and to tell a story with wry humor for his hero's troubling predicament.
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