A Severe Mercy

Amazon.com Price: $13.18 (as of 24/10/2019 01:05 PST- Details)

Categories: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Description

A heart-rending love story described by its creator as “the spiritual autobiography of a love relatively than of the lovers” about the creator’s marriage and search for faith.

 

Vanauken chronicles the birth of a powerful pagan love borne out of the relationship he shares with his wife, Davy, and describes the growth of their relationship and the dreams that they share.

A beloved, profoundly moving account of the creator’s marriage, the couple’s search for faith and friendship with C. S. Lewis, and a religious strength that sustained Vanauken after his wife’s untimely death. Replete with 18 letters from C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy addresses one of the crucial universal questions that surround faith–the existence of God and the reasons at the back of tragedy.

A Severe Mercy, by Sheldon Vanauken, is a heart-rending love story described by its creator as “the spiritual autobiography of a love relatively than of the lovers.” Vanauken chronicles the birth of a powerful pagan love borne out of the relationship he shares with his wife, Davy, and describes the growth of their relationship and the dreams that they share. As a symbol of their love, they name their dream schooner the Grey Goose, “for the grey goose, if its mate is killed flies on alone and never takes another.”

Even as studying at Oxford, Sheldon and Davy develop a friendship with C.S. Lewis, under whose influence and with much intellectual scrutiny they accept the Christian doctrine. As their devotion to God intensifies, Sheldon realizes that he’s no longer Davy’s primary love–God is. Within this discovery begins a brewing jealousy.

In a while after, Davy acquires a fatal illness. After her death Sheldon embarks on an intense experience of grief, “to find the meaning of it, taste the whole of it … to be told from sorrow no matter what it had to teach.” Through painstaking reveries, he comes to discover the meaning of “a mercy as severe as death, a severity as merciful as love.” He learns that her death “had these results: It brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealously of God. It saved her faith from assault. …And it saved our love from perishing.”

Replete with 18 letters from C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy addresses one of the crucial universal questions that surround faith–the existence of God and the reasons at the back of tragedy. –Jacque Holthusen

Related products

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Christian Books and Bibles » Ministry and Evangelism » Evangelism » A Severe Mercy

Recent Products