Letter To A Man In The Fire Does God Exist And Does He Care

Does God Exist and Does He Care?In April 1997 Reynolds Price received an eloquent letter from a reader of his cancer memoir,A Whole New Life. The correspondent, a young medical student diagnosed with cancer himself and facing his own mortality, asked these difficultQuestions. The two began a long-distance correspondence, culminating in Price's thoughtful response, originally delivered as the Jack and Lewis Rudin Lecture at Auburn Theological Seminary, and now expanded onto the printed page asLetter to a Man in the Fire.Harvesting a variety of sources -- diverse religious traditions, classical and modern texts, and a lifetime of personal experiences, interactions, and spiritual encounters -- Price meditates on God's participation in our fate. With candor and sympathy, he offers the reader such a rich variety of tools to explore these questions as to place this work in the company of other great tetsaments of faith from St. Augustine to C. S. Lewis.Letter to a Man in the Firemoves as much as it educates. It is a rare combination of deep erudition, vivid prose, and profound humanity.

Reynolds Price is the author of more than thirty books, including Roxanna Slade; a Singular Family; and Kate Vaiden, winner of the National Book Critcs Circle Award. He is the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in the Piedmont countryside of North Carolina.