{"product_id":"9780060611569","title":"Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy and Fairy Tale","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An artist is at work here in the vineyard of theology, a wit with wisdom.\" So wrote the\u003cem\u003e New York Times Book Review \u003c\/em\u003eof Buechner’s previous excursion into the realms of faith and meaning, Wishful Thinking. Telling the Truth cultivates that same vineyard and returns with heady wine indeed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo understand what the Gospels are all about, insists this novelist-preacher, you have to understand their unblinking reflection of everyday reality. They disdain equally saccharine, happy endings and soft-boiled hope. Rather, they record the tragedy of human failuer, the comedy of being loved overwhelmingly by God despite that failure, and the fairytale of transformation through that love. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTelling the Truth is for the preacher who must pull the little cord that turns on the lectern light, must look out over the people and the silence, must begin to speak of a truth beyond telling. It is for the woman who wants to understand how people believe what they cheerfully acknowledge is a tragic, comic fairy tale. It is for anyone who believes that faith, like art, can hold a special mirror to human experience. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frederick Buechner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46895374532757,"sku":"9780060611569","price":30.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780060611569_8eaf5f08-1cbd-4947-8b5a-d83760d54389.jpg?v=1776888275","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780060611569","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}