With his body stiff, his knees bent, his arms scarecrowed far to either side, he never merely taught the Old Testament but was the Old Testament.’ When Buechner met Judith, the woman who was to be his wife, it was Muilenberg who officiated their wedding: ‘ hands trembled so as he read the service’. Buechner particularly remembers the teaching style of Muilenberg: ‘Up and down the whole length of the aisle he would stride as he chanted the war songs, the taunt songs, the dirges of ancient Israel. Upon returning to New York, Buechner recounts his time at Union, and his encounters with Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Martin Buber, James Muilenburg, Samuel Terrien, Wilhelm Pauck, Cyril Richardson, and Robert McAfee Brown. The author recalls the process of writing his first two novels, A Long Day's Dying and The Seasons' Difference, and a brief spell in Europe, during which he met Lewis Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bernard Berenson, and Alice B. ![]() Published in 1983, the work describes the author's life from his conversion to Christianity in 1953, at the age of twenty-seven, up to his residency in Vermont at the age of fifty-seven.īuechner introduces his second autobiographical work by narrating the years leading up to his attendance at Union Theological Seminary, New York. Now and Then: a memoir of vocation (1983), is the second of four partial autobiographies written by Frederick Buechner. ![]() For other books, see Now and Then#Literature.
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