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	Godric (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Godric (ISBN 0-06-061162-6) is a novel published in 1981, written by Frederick Buechner, that tells the semi-fictionalised life story of a mediaeval Catholic saint: Godric of Finchale.
		Godric is told in Saint Godric's own voice: Buechner intentionally uses style, tone, and word choice to evoke a "mediaeval" manner of speaking.
		As a historical novel it provides a gateway for understanding mediaeval history with the full breadth of imagination, characterisation and emotion that non-fiction history is restricted by.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Godric_(novel) (234 words)

	Godric - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Godric the Sheriff, an 11th century sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire.
		Godric Gryffindor, a fictional character in the Harry Potter universe.
		Godric's Hollow, a fictional place in the Harry Potter universe.
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	Amazon.ca: Godric: Books: Frederick Buechner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the same way, Godric's self-knowledge, his all-too-human grief and shame at the imperfect acts of an imperfect life, and his savage irony at the biographer sent to him by his friend, serve to cast his saintliness into the shadows of a life lived ever in the presence of his own shadow self.
		In this novel, his telling of the life story of Godric, a saint who lived from c.1065-1170, he paints a vivid, breathing portrait of a man who aspired with all his heart to know, love and serve God, struggling with his humanity every step of the way.
		Godric himself settles at a spot in the woods near the river Wear, a place that he had seen in an earlier vision -- it is here that he lives out the rest of his days in almost complete solitude, devoting himself to prayer and reflection, visited only rarely by outsiders.
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	TruePravda » Books That Haunt
		The novel focuses on the murder of Fyodor Karamazov, and the intrigue surrounding the case involving his sons, each of whom represent different worldviews; Alyosha—a theistic worldview, Dmitry—a romantic worldview, Ivan—an existentialist worldview, and the illegitimate Smerdyakov, who appears as the evil outcast.
		The novel is loosely based on Godric of Finchale, a 12th century holy man known for, among other things, the self-mortification of his flesh which he carried our by bathing in the cold waters of the river Wear.
		As much as Godric tries to portray his true nature (which is not so holy) to the biographer, the biographer sees only a holy man. Godric is a saint whether he likes it or not—and it’s certainly not his own deeds that make him holy.
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	Amazon.fr : Godric: Livres en anglais: Frederick Buechner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		If you think a novel about a saint is likely to be a dry and airy sort of thing, think again.
		Godric was a 12th-century saint--born to Anglo-Saxon parents in Norfolk almost in the year of the Norman invasion (1066 for those of you long unschooled!).
		And in some ways this is the deepest point of this delightful (and at times comic) novel: these people, like those who live among us today, become saints not by leaving the body behind but by finding a way to live more deeply within it.
	www.amazon.fr /Godric-Frederick-Buechner/dp/0060611626 (399 words)

	The Hermit in Lore: Frederick Buechner's Godric - Articles - House of Lore - Hermitary
		Godric is portrayed with the full psychological voice of his era, not only as the likely person he would have been but with the full stubbornness, attitudes, fears, lusts, longings, compromises, and sensitivities we might expect.
		Perhaps, but Godric is so self-effacing, so humble, lacking a trace of dissimulation, even naive and innocent in his bald retelling of scandal, cruelty, and lust that to speak of spirituality leading him forward is too formulaic, too convenient.
		Godric is a glimpse into the magnificent struggle, and a novel that wonders at the possibilities of the human spirit.
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	Godric Summary / Study Guide
		It is a novel of only 175 pages which, despite its compressed form, manages to elaborate strikingly on the themes of life and faith Buechner has expressed throughout his writing career.
		The novel is a fictional interpretation of the life of an Anglo-Saxon merchant who later became a hermit.
		Such was the historical Godric's reputation for holiness that he was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
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	sydneyanglicans.net - Reconstructing Harry
		Godric means "power of god", derived from Old English god combined with ric "power, rule".
		He argue that the novels endorse the dishonesty, disobedience and desire for revenge sometimes displayed by the “good characters”.
		With degrees in French and the Classics and an abiding passion for literature, it seems unlikely that Rowling is ignorant of her novels’ layers.
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	Frederick Buechner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1950, Buechner published his first novel, A Long Day's Dying, which he had began writing during his senior year at Princeton.
		His most critically acclaimed novel, Godric, is the semi-fictionalized story of the life of a medieval Catholic saint, Godric of Finchale, told from his own perspective.
		Godric was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981.
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	Theology Today - Vol 40, No. 3 - October 1983 - ARTICLE - Frederick Buechner: The Novelist As Theologian
		In the novels of the 'sixties and 'seventies, his intense preoccupation in the earlier fiction with the hidden and labyrinthine complexities, the coincidences, and the might-have-beens of human behavior and relationships is enlarged and embraced within a wondering and finally comic vision of the elusive strangeness of both the self and the world.
		It is in the Bebb novels, in fact, that Buechner comes the closest to a fully balanced artistic portrayal of that inseparable mix of the ridiculous and the sublime, the absurd and the gracious, the accidental and the providential, which Buechner sees as the human condition.
		Godric is another vivid example of those "peculiar treasures" about whom Buechner loves to write, the latest member of the diverse but always-recognizable Rinkitink succession.
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	Godric: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Godric is a historical novel based on the life of a real person.
		What makes this book unusual as historical fiction is its written as if Godric himself wrote it 1000 years ago, as if we are reading a historical document, including period grammer and sentence structure (although not scholarly or difficult for the modern reader to read and understand).
		This made Buechner's job difficult considering nothing of this type of literary work exists from the period, thus it is fundamentally anachronistic.
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	MainBody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is the intention of the author to create a full-length (novel / epic sized) story based on this tale, and therefore the author wishes it that no-one take any elements from this story without express and prior written permission of the author.
		Summary: Godric was a wise and powerful wizard, having loved and lost many friends in battle, fighting fantastical magical beasts and dark magi.
		This tale is a recount of one small event in Godric's life, as told by the great sorcerer himself, with the aid of a mysterious quill...
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	5 Less Known Novels Everyone Should Read - The Alphabet Bookstore
		These five novels are works by writers at the peak of their craft.
		Taciturn, scowling, lonely and yet clinging to the last threads of a tattered faith, Buechner's Godric is a master portrait of the struggling soul.
		By turns terrifying, amusing, gentle and stoic, this classic novel portrays the struggle to live with the senselessness of death.
	www.alphabet.ca /5_less_known_novels.htm (542 words)

	Godric: A Novel \| First Baptist Church \| Savannah GA
		Godric is a novel which retells the life of a 12th century holy man. Godric of Finchale tells the story of his life to a young monk who has been assigned to write his biography.
		As scandalous as that may seem, it is far outweighed by the deepness of faith that underlies the work.
		Godric is a story that speaks to our realities.
	www.heideldesign.com /~fbcsav/book_reviews/godric_a_novel.php (428 words)

	Books : The Storm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Storm is Frederick Buechner's most captivating novel since Godric--a richly satisfying contemporary story of fragmented families and love's many mysteries that will move you, makeyou laugh, and fill you with wonder.
		In all of the novels by this author that I have read so far, this is a firm constant -- and one of his greatest strengths.
		I believe that The Storm is a story of a completely dysfunctional family, but hope, faith and caring shine through despite so many histories and challenges.
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	Crescent Hill Baptist Church
		In his novels William Faulkner sought to explore what he called “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself.” That’s what Paul, Godric, and we continue to live with.
		Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would whither in his breast.
		In the midst of his struggle with sin and guilt, he was lying on the grass one day, and all of a sudden a sense of peace came over him.
	www.crescenthillbaptistchurch.org /oldsite/sermon-7-3-05.htm (1646 words)

	WTS diaologue: Theology and the Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		His novels also give Greely a kind of freedom to express his own spirituality, which is rather more broad than traditional Catholic dogma might seem to allow, under the cover of "fiction" (for example the way Fr.
		There are also those written as novels: Ruth, Esther, and Jonah in the Hebrew Scriptures, and in the expansion of Hebrew Sciptures in the Deutero-canonicals: Tobit, Judith, Susanna and the Elders (a mystery novel, yet!), Bel and the Dragon (another mystery) and the Maccabees.
		This novel is sensitively written and told from the perspective of the daughter of a midwife who is embroiled in a legal struggle after a home birth disaster.
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	The Son of Laughter: A Novel - Frederick Buechner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The novel depicts a time during which people struggled within themselves -- and with their traditions -- to make the transition from worshipping many gods to worshipping one, and that transition was not an easy one.
		Buechner's voice for Jacob is utterly compelling, and the novel is biblically sound with one major exception.
		Like many before him and doubtless many who will follow, he doesn't deal with the thorny Biblical fact that Dinah was raped and Jacob wasn't all that concerned about it (the issue is skirted by theorizing that Jacob knew Dinah loved Sheckem and what happened between them was consentual).
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	UMOI Media Center - Genre Details
		Robert McAfee Brown is recognized as one of the foremost interpreters of liberation theology in the United States.
		With his first novel, 'Godric,' Buechner established himself as a unique writer in the Christian tradition.
		Rumored to be the inspiration behind the cartoon character, the Rev. Will B. Dunn, this author and preacher brings his wit to the teachings of the church.
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	Nights And Weekends - Godric Review
		Buechner plunges you into the earthy, honest, yet spiritually profound world of Godric, a hermit who is revered as a holy man but certainly doesn’t see himself as a saint.
		He lets the story of Godric tell itself (though he helps it a little where history falls short of details).
		And by so doing he draws his readers into this story of sin and faith and hermitage and self-mortification, concepts not familiar to most modern minds but made fascinating in this Pulitzer-nominated book, which is among my all-time favorites.
	www.nightsandweekends.com /article/?acode=NW0200124 (243 words)

	CT Classic: Frederick Buechner's Sacred Journey - Christianity Today magazine - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com
		His novels about saints, such as the eponymous novel Godric, portray figures who are crusty, salty, even tainted by such dark sins as incest.
		In 1965, he published his fourth novel, The Final Beast, the story of a widowed New England preacher struggling to take care of his children and perform his pastoral duties, all the while facing the threat of a sex scandal and probing the meaning of faith and healing.
		His novels over the last two decades, Lion Country, Open Heart, Godric (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), to name a few, have changed little in that regard.
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	BookRags: Godric Study Guide
		Although Buechner includes a historical note on the real St. Godric at the end of the novel, the biographical date and spiritual life of the ac.....
		Each guide is written by a subject expert, professional educator, or scholar of the work.
		Godric from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults.
	www.bookrags.com /shortguide-godric/socialconcernsthemes.html (160 words)

	The Writer's Almanac from American Public Media
		Her first novel, In the Language of Love (1994), is composed of one hundred chapters, each one based on one of the one hundred words in the Standard Word Association Test, which was used to measure sanity.
		When he emerged from his room in 1907, he had notes and drafts for the novel that would keep him busy for the rest of his life, A la recherche du temps perdu, which was published between 1913 and 1927.
		The novel is narrated by a Jewish cavalry officer assigned to a regiment of anti-Semitic Cossacks.
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	Frederick Buechner
		In 1971, his novel Lion Country, the first of four books centered around a character named Leo Bebb, was nominated for a National Book Award.
		His novel Godric, published in 1980, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
		Even though the novel was not a commercial success, he decided to leave Exeter and move to Vermont in 1967, "to give myself," as he recalls, "more to the ministry of writing."
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		Godric : A Novel Description: If you think a novel about a saint is likely to be a dry and airy sort of thing, think again.
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	International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award
		Aided and abetted by Dalton's happy-go-lucky stepson, a loutish gardener, a New Age windsurfer, a bumbling bishop, and a bona fida tempest, Kenzie must somehow contrive to reconcile with his brother - and make peace with his past.
		An ordained Presbyterian minister, Frederick Buechner is the author of thirty works of fiction and nonfiction, including, most recently, the novel On the Road with the Archangel which was nominated for the 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
		His novel Godric was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and The Son of Laughter and Brendan were both winners of Christianity Today's Critics Choice Award.
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	Books : Godric: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"From the book's opening sentence...and sensible reader will be caught in Godric's grip...
		"Godric is a memorable book...a marvelous gem of a book...destined to become a classic of its kind." -- Michael Heskett, Houston Chronicle
		Godric is a living battleground where God fights it out with the world, the Flesh, and the Devil." -- London Times Literary Supplement
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		The second novel of the Harry Potter series, The Chamber of...
		The 4 teams in the Harry Potter novels were Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin.
		After each chapter or section of the book is completed, ask your students to submit a trivia question about what they have just...
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	The following articles all focus on persons things named Godric ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The following articles all focus on persons things named Godric...
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		Godric (novel) Godric (novel), a Pulitzer-nominated book by Frederick Buechner Frederick Buechner msg:disambig
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