And Yet . . .: A Faith Journey

by Pedro A. Sandín-Fremaint, Carter Heyward (Foreword by)

Overview

This intimate kaleidoscopic journal takes the reader through the cycles of faith and doubt that typify the author's spiritual journey from his childhood and youth in Puerto Rico to his retirement years in the United States. Lyrical prose, poetry, and story combine to express the vagaries of a spirituality that, at one and the same time, is unable to gloss over the difficult, often heartbreaking questions of faith, and yet cannot give up on the longing for God.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666721782
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	10/12/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	76
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Pedro A. Sandín-Fremaint is a retired professor of French at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, and of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Earlier publications in English and Spanish include the novel Huellas de papel (2015) and a collection of homilies under the title The Holy Gospel of Uncertainty (2017). He lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire, with his wife, Annie, and their two dogs, Sally and Molly.

The Rev. Dr. I. Carter Heyward is Howard Chandler Robbins Professor of Theology at Episcopal Divinity School.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“I suspect . . . that for Pedro, to write is to pray, which is why And Yet . . . is in truth a prayer book. This is a splendid collection, a precious gift to me as a seeker of honesty, compassion, and sacred truth.”

—Carter Heyward, Howard Chandler Robbins Professor of Theology, retired, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts



“The itinerary this book traces of an agnostic, zigzagging soul is nonetheless intensely spiritual—moving, even overwhelming—in its truthfulness. Many readers will identify with the author’s confessions, whose Augustinian tone is readily perceived.”

—Luce López-Baralt, Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literatures at the University of Puerto Rico—Río Piedras; world-renowned for her study of comparative mysticism and of the traces of Islam in Spanish literature



“Neither lightning nor faith can be caught in a bottle. Regarding the latter, . . . nor a creed, a vigorous moral code, a precise ritual practice, or a particular emotive temperament. Faith requires more dexterity, a willingness to wander, a capacity for wonder. ‘For the world has grown full of peril,’ Galadriel said in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Nevertheless, ‘hope remains while the company is true.’ Pedro Sandín-Fremaint is true company.”

—Ken Sehested, author of In the Land of the Willing: Litanies, Prayers, Poems, and Benedictions

Editorial Reviews

I suspect . . . that for Pedro, to write is to pray, which is why And Yet . . . is in truth a prayer book. This is a splendid collection, a precious gift to me as a seeker of honesty, compassion, and sacred truth.”

—Carter Heyward, Howard Chandler Robbins Professor of Theology, retired, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts



“The itinerary this book traces of an agnostic, zigzagging soul is nonetheless intensely spiritual—moving, even overwhelming—in its truthfulness. Many readers will identify with the author’s confessions, whose Augustinian tone is readily perceived.”

—Luce López-Baralt, Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literatures at the University of Puerto Rico—Río Piedras; world-renowned for her study of comparative mysticism and of the traces of Islam in Spanish literature



“Neither lightning nor faith can be caught in a bottle. Regarding the latter, . . . nor a creed, a vigorous moral code, a precise ritual practice, or a particular emotive temperament. Faith requires more dexterity, a willingness to wander, a capacity for wonder. ‘For the world has grown full of peril,’ Galadriel said in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Nevertheless, ‘hope remains while the company is true.’ Pedro Sandín-Fremaint is true company.”

—Ken Sehested, author of In the Land of the Willing: Litanies, Prayers, Poems, and Benedictions

From the Publisher