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My Grandfather's House Book
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From the award-winning author of the novels Mr. White's Confession and In the Deep Midwinter comes this powerful, thought-provoking history of faith, doubt, and religious belief told through five centuries of one remarkable family.In My Grandfather's House, Robert Clark traces the spiritual quests and struggles of his ancestors, from England's split with the Church of Rome at the end of the middle ages to his own return to the faith five hundred years later.Clark reconstructs their lives as medieval Catholics, heretics, and inquisitors in the England of Henry VII; as Puritan settlers, participants in Indian wars, and accusers in witch trials in New England in the 1600s; as preachers, artists, writers, and agnostics during the theological and intellectual upheavals of the 19th century that left them exploring creeds ranging from evangelical Protestantism to Unitarianism to Buddhism to atheism.In the context of King Henry's divorces and his quarrel with both the Pope and Martin Luther; the religious and personal struggles of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Margaret Fuller, Clark weaves a rich history that culminates in his own quest through doubt toward faith.Profound, moving, and ultimately inspiring, My Grandfather's House is a vivid and original account of the persistence of belief through five centuries of questing and questioning.
- 0312209320
- 9780312209322
- Robert Clark
- 16 March 2000
- Saint Martin's Press Inc.
- Hardcover (Book)
- 288
- 1st Picador USA Ed
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