The Hungering Dark

by Frederick Buechner

Book Overview

These powerful reflections on biblical themes by one of today's most popular religious writers point up the truth that the darkness of doubt is often necessary to provoke a hunger for God. The Hungering Dark towers as one of Fredrick Buechner's best statements on contemporary belief challenged by doubt.Drawing on texts from the Old and New Testaments, The Hungering Dark invites us to discover the hidden face of God, the manifestation of his grace,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060611758
• ISBN13: 9780060611750
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Well written and engaging

I do not know of a Christian writer who uses the English language with more eloquence and beauty than Buechner. That being said, Beuchner's existential approach to faith is both his greatest strength and weakness. This book will move you, but often not in any specific direction. Form tends to overshadow depth and the seeker often overshadows the Sought. But I think anyone would enjoy this book immensely.

Making the glass lighter

We all understand life by looking "through a glass, darkly." Buechner, poetically as usual, tackles some of the why, for why it's so hard and scary for us to really see the truths about God. Buechner divides the book into "The Search," our responsibility to seek God to fill our hungering dark, and "The Sought," God's ever-present desire to bring us to him. Buechner is poignant and insightful. Each chapter is complete and yet leaves the reader hanging on for more. It's like the reading equivalent of savoring a piece of cheesecake.

Its about life....

Like all of Buechner's books, I can't tell you what they are about. They are about life. Its ups and downs and sorrows and joys. Buechner writes prose like he is a poet. Sure, he's a Calvinist preacher, but he isn't as curt as C.S. Lewis can be, and he is certainly not going to cram Christianity down your throat. I bawled through Chapters 7 & 8, and read the whole book in one afternoon. I will be reading it again, for sure.

a book worth reading

This is a wonderful collection of sermons that both brightens and enlightens. Mr. Buechner has a manner of writing that brings joy and strengthens faith. In the still quiet of a room, read this book. It helps.