This book is a collection of short stories depicting spiritual struggle
within the contours of sobering and sometimes fatal situations. Some
stories portray less serious and humorous situations, though with
redemptive themes still intertwined. The characters and situations
presented do not disappoint the reader's desire for pleasurable reading,
though a sense of the fleeting world mixed with spiritual confrontation or
confusion may give the reader pause before moving to the next story. For
readers who like realistic religious fiction with plausible characters in
trying circumstances, the book provides a variety of stories in the contest
of wills between living for wrong things and the confrontations inevitable
with a calling in Christ. While some stories within this book have this
explicit context, others provide samples of the infinite battles that
confront the believer living in a secular or distorted age.
Dr. Larry D. Harwood is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at
Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA, and specializes in
Philosophy of Religion, Asian Philosophy, History of Religion, and Religion
and Aesthetics. In addition to fictional writing, he has published articles
on Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, C. S. Lewis, Confucianism, postmodernism,
the problem of evil, and the meaning of life. His book entitled Denuded
Devotion to Christ : The Ascetic Piety of Protestant True Religion in the
Reformation is scheduled for publication by Wipf and Stock in 2013, and he
is currently at work on a book on Bertrand Russell and religion. In the
spring term of 2008 he was an American Fulbright Scholar at the University
of Lisbon, Portugal, where he taught in the Program in Theory of
Literature. In 2004 he made the first of several trips to Asia and has
returned on three occasions bringing in tow almost forty students.
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