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Doubting Thomas’s Book of Common Prayers
by Thomas Burton
$14.49, paper
Doubting Thomas’s Book of Common Prayers by Thomas Burton
$14.49
The operative word in Tom Burton’s title is clearly “doubting,” not fashionable skepticism, but a questioning informed by experience and a broad range of literary study. Burton undergirds his thoughts on everyday life with allusions to Chaucer, Shakespeare, and his cherished Victorian mentors, Browning and Tennyson. His wisdom is revealed, as Eliot says of the latter’s, not by the strength of his convictions, but by the “quality of his doubt.”
–Don Johnson, Poet in Residence, East Tennessee State University
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
J. Austin –
The deeper I go into this, the more I wonder when I managed to write it and publish it in someone else’s name.
These prayers are so on point. If you are a thinking person; a doubting person, you need this to dip into every once in a while. Do you really want to spark a conversation? Then put this book in the bathroom, rather than a book of jokes.