Letter to a Man in the Fire

In April 1997 Reynolds Price received an eloquent letter from a reader of his cancer memoir A Whole New Life. The correspondent a young medical student diagnosed with cancer himself and facing his own mortality asked these difficultQuestions. The two began a long-distance correspondence culminating in Price's thoughtful response originally delivered as the Jack and Lewis Rudin Lecture at Auburn Theological Seminary and now expanded onto the printed page as Letter to a Man in the Fire.Harvesting a variety of sources -- diverse religious traditions classical and modern texts and a lifetime of personal experiences interactions and spiritual encounters -- Price meditates on God's participation in our fate. With candor and sympathy he offers the reader such a rich variety of tools to explore these questions as to place this work in the company of other great tetsaments of faith from St. Augustine to C. S. Lewis.Letter to a Man in the Fire moves as much as it educates. It is a rare combination of deep erudition vivid prose and profound humanity.