He is best known for his works A Long Day ’ s Dying ( his first work, published in 1950 ); The Book of Bebb, a tetralogy based on the character Leo Bebb published in 1979 ; Godric, a first person narrative of the life of the medieval saint, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 ; Brendan, a second novel narrating a saint ’ s life, published in 1987 ; Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner ( 1992 ); and his autobiographical works The Sacred Journey ( 1982 ), Now and Then ( 1983 ), Telling Secrets ( 1991 ), and The Eyes of the Heart: Memoirs of the Lost and Found ( 1999 ).

His later novels, including the Book of Bebb series and Godric, received hearty praise ; in his 1980 review of Godric, Benjamin DeMott summed up a host of positive reviews, saying “ All on his own, Mr. Buechner has managed to reinvent projects of self-purification and of faith as piquant matter for contemporary fiction, producing in a single decade a quintet of books each of which is individual in concerns and knowledge, and notable for literary finish .” In 1982, author Reynolds Price greeted Buechner ’ s The Sacred Journey as “ a rich new vein for Buechner – a kind of detective autobiography ” and “ he result is a short but fascinating and, in its own terms, beautifully successful experiment .”

* 1971 Lion Country published ( first of tetralogy on Leo Bebb ); nominated for National Book Award

* 1979 The Book of Bebb published

* The Book of Bebb, 1979

Gene Wolfe's tetralogy The Book of the Long Sun ( 1993 ) deals directly with the challenges facing the inhabitants of the starcrosser Whorl and the continuing challenges after planetfall in The Book of the Short Sun ( 1999 ).

The version appearing in 1958 in the tetralogy was substantially revised, partly to incorporate events and themes that White had originally intended to cover in a fifth volume ( which was finally published after his death, as The Book of Merlyn ).

Similar to the Otherland series that was initially intended to be a trilogy but became a tetralogy instead, Book 3 became so lengthy that it was not possible to be published in one volume.

When Gene Wolfe finished the third volume of his The Book of the New Sun heroic fantasy epic, fans of the series began clamoring almost immediately for the fourth and final book in the tetralogy.

Their publishing company, Watch Tower, and official position magazine, The Watchtower, have asserted: " Ever since The Watchtower began to be published in July 1879 it has looked ahead into the future ... No, The Watchtower is no inspired prophet, but it follows and explains a Book of prophecy the predictions in which have proved to be unerring and unfailing till now.

The meaning of the word " Biafra " has been explained in the Book, " Biafra or Nigerian Presidency: What the Ibos Want " where the author delved into the etimology and etiology of the words " Biafra ", " Ibo " and " Igbo " and proved that " Biafra " is an ancient word in the Igbo language which was lost many centuries ago just like other Igbo words have been lost.

Techno proved so popular that he was awarded his own strip for a limited run and appeared in The Beano Book of Amazing Facts.

Book censorship proved to have a strong influence in Portuguese cultural evolution, serving to keep the country in ignorance and cultural backwardness.

Similarly he claimed that archaeology had proved the essential historicity of the Book of Exodus, and the conquest of Canaan as described in the book of Joshua and the book of Judges.

For example, in the first construction of Book 1, Euclid used a premise that was neither postulated nor proved: that two circles with centers at the distance of their radius will intersect in two points.

That same year, she again starred alongside Stewart in Bell, Book and Candle, a comedy tale of modern-day witchcraft, that proved to be a box office success.

To strengthen his position, there were Luther's own statements in his sermons on the Book of Genesis, as well as historical precedents which proved to his satisfaction that it was impossible for anything to be un-Christian that God had not punished in the case of the patriarchs, who in the New Testament were held up as models of faith.

Charlesworth summarized the current scholarly consensus, saying: " It became obvious that Milik had not proved his position, as Fitzmyer pointed out as soon as The Book of Enoch had been published.

Fawn Brodie wrote in her biography of Smith that it " may never be proved that Joseph saw View of the Hebrews before writing the Book of Mormon, but the striking parallelisms between the two books hardly leave a case for mere coincidence.

Knox attacked Cox as a pluralist, Cox accused Knox of treason to the emperor Charles V. This proved the more dangerous charge: Knox and his followers were expelled, and the Prayer Book of 1552 was restored.

In the New York Times Book Review, critic Eric Weisbard wrote, " In the decade Azerrad covers, indie America proved that world-class rock could be created outside corporate structures .... Our Band Could Be Your Life passionately resurrects thirteen indie groups ... Azerrad is adept at drawing out musicians ' war stories -- and this bare-bones movement was full of them.

To his credit, McManaman never spoke ill of the Galáctico policy's effects on him during his tenure, only critiquing the policy and ultimately describing it in his autobiography " El Macca " ( a book that was shortlisted as the William Hill Sports Book of the Year ), in 2004 as the " Disneyfication of Real Madrid " upon his departure from the club ; a piece of foresight that proved telling for the future as the club never reached its heights in the period ensuing with the policy, and with the term becoming somewhat pejorative to this day.

Whence with relative ease is proved Proposition 10 in Book XIII of Euclid's Elements: The square on the side of the pentagon equals the sum of the squares on the sides of the hexagon and the decagon inscribed in the same circle.

Of historic interest is Book Three-The Incontrovertible Fact of Evolution, comprising five chapters ; I The fact to be proved, II The evidence in the rocks, III The evidence from plant and animal structure, IV The evidence from the variation and distribution of living things, V The evolution of Man.

After small parts in the films 13 Hrs and A Closed Book, he returned to TV as Sir David Bryant in the 2010 series of New Tricks, in what proved to be his final TV appearance.

The Book Club proved to be so successful that Ince took it on a full UK tour in 2006, the same year he won the Time Out Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy.

The Book of Enoch describes Sheol as divided into four compartments for four types of the dead: the faithful saints who await resurrection in Paradise, the merely virtuous who await their reward, the wicked who await punishment, and the wicked who have already been punished and will not be resurrected on Judgment Day.

It should be noted that the Book of Enoch is considered apocryphal by most denominations of Christianity and all denominations of Judaism.

His name can be read as " son of Ya Sin " ( the title of the 36th Sura of the Qur ' an ), suggesting he had obliterated his family past and was " re-born " of the Holy Book.

Prior to his death, according to the Book of Jubilees, Amram was among those who went to Egypt and recovered the bones of the sons of his grandfather and great uncles ( excluding those of Joseph which had already been brought to Canaan ), so that they could be reburied in the cave of Machpelah.

Didymus reports that the work transmitted as speech 11 of Demosthenes ( Against the Letter of Philip ) could be found in almost identical form in Book 7 of Anaximenes ' Philippica, and many scholars regard the work as a historiographic composition by Anaximenes.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

The Book of Exodus gives detailed instructions on how the Ark is to be constructed.

A Gospel Book believed to be directly associated with St. Augstine's mission survives in the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, England.

They are identical except that Athanasius includes the Book of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah and places the Book of Esther among the " 7 books not in the canon but to be read " along with the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach ( Ecclesiasticus ), Judith, Tobit, the Didache, and the Shepherd of Hermas.

This form of the Apostles ' Creed can be found incorporated into the Eucharistic and Baptismal Liturgies in the Hymnal and in The United Methodist Book of Worship, and hence it is growing in popularity and use.

The liturgical communities in western Christianity that derive their rituals from the Roman Missal, including those particular communities which use the Roman Missal itself ( Roman Catholics ), the Book of Common Prayer ( Anglicans / Episcopalians ), the Lutheran Book of Worship ( ELCA Lutherans ), Lutheran Service Book ( Missouri-Synod Lutherans ), use the Apostles ' Creed and interrogative forms of it in their rites of Baptism, which they consider to be the first sacrament of initiation into the Church.

In novels and sometimes other types of books ( for example, biographies ), a book may be divided into several large sections, also called books ( Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, and so on ).

Biblical scholars believe Bethlehem, located in the " hill country " of Judah, may be the same as the Biblical Ephrath, which means " fertile ", as there is a reference to it in the Book of Micah as Bethlehem Ephratah.

Contrary to the above, the Expositor's Bible Commentary ( Zondervan, 1990 ) says that the language of Daniel, in comparison with the Hebrew and Aramaic texts of the Hellenistic period, " prove quite conclusively to any scholar that the second-century date and Palestinian provenance of the Book of Daniel cannot be upheld any longer without violence being done to the science of linguistics.

Since Daniel was a statesman during the Persian conquests, the Book of Daniel could have been written in a period when the Persians had their greatest influence on Aramaic, believed to be in the mid 6th century BC.

* The primary source relating to the origin of Purim is the Megillat Esther ( Book of Esther ), which became the last of the 24 books of the Tanakh to be canonized by the Sages of the Great Assembly.

Another example of text from the last chapter or epilogue of Job can be found in the book The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation, showing examples of how fragments of The Book of Job found among the scrolls differ from the text as now known.

The full name of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer is The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches and the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.

Instead, the forms of service that were to be included in the Book of Common Prayer were drawn from the Missal ( for the Mass ), Breviary for the daily office, Manual ( for the occasional services ; Baptism, Marriage, Burial etc.