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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LAYMAN invariably suffers a severe shock when he reads a book on religion and finds that it is neither an attempt at conversion nor an attack on his conscience. The concept that a religious book is hurled from a pulpit dies hard in the popular mind, but Dean Sperry has done much to explode this theory in his lectures in the Lowell Institute published in book form under the name of Strangers and Pilgrims...
...author subtitles his book "Studies in Classics of Christian Devotion." But the ground covered in his lectures is far more extensive than a mere theological discussion. Taking as his subject six great literary milestones of Christian thought all the way from Augustine's "Confessions" to the diary of John Woolman, he paints behind each a portrait of the author and a landscape of the times. With sweeping strokes he brings to life the intellectual atmosphere in which each of these great masterpieces was produced, showing the essential huntanity of each work as well as its significance. The startling contrast between...
Some of the books which Dean Sperry discusses, such as Theologia Germanica or Brother Lawrence's The Practice of the Presence of God, are not very familiar to those outside the Church. Consequently, while Strangers and Pilgrims was meant primarily to be a book of criticism, it will serve many lay readers as an excellent introduction to these masterpieces. Delving into a primary source in Christian theology is no easy matter for the lay reader. Language, terminology, unfamiliar dogma, all conspire to hide the author's purpose. Yet with the scholarly background which Dean Sperry has provided for each...
Seniors and graduate students will be able to take a course in "The History of the Book" next year, according to an authoritative announcement from Widener Library yesterday. The new course marks the latest stepping-stone in the rapid progress of the recently created Department of Printing and Graphic Arts...
...savings account. He figured he now had sufficient income to stop working and write as he pleased. He sent in his resignation to baffled superiors, moved to a Manhattan apartment, began the full-time literary career he had dreamed of. Some Like Them Short is his first book since then-a collection of 20 tight-kerneled, first-rate stories and sketches ranging from the tale of a shoe salesman to a group of sketches about German War prisoners. But only four of these stories were written in the last year. Besides these, Author March has done some work...