Between noon and three
a parable of romance, law, and the outrage of grace
Picture a college town in the mid-1970s. An English professor who has become an expert in extramarital dalliances is smitten by one of his graduate students. They meet for lunch around noon, and before three they make declarations of love. Is it possible that their subsequent affair could ultimately teach us something about true forgiveness and the radical meaning of grace? Only Robert Farrar Capon would have the audacity - and the authorial skill - to fashion such a. Tale. It has taken well over a decade for Between Noon and Three to appear in this, its original form. First published under two separate titles with significant parts excised and an entire section recast, the real Between Noon and Three is actually a trilogy of intertwined tales, each of which exhibits Capon's persistent insistence on the outrageous nature of grace. The original manuscript is here printed in full, including a new introduction by Capon on the work's. Unusual history.
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Spiritual, Philosophy. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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Spiritual · Philosophy
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- 978-0-0606-1308-2
- Language
- English
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- OL3785501M
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Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.
Begin with its place in Spiritual, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
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- Which claim challenges one of your familiar assumptions?
- What remains unresolved—and is that uncertainty useful?
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