10 notable Christians who died in 2022
Frederick Buechner – Aug. 15, 2022
Frederick Buechner, a Presbyterian theologian, public speaker, minister, World War II veteran and author of numerous fiction and nonfiction books, died at the age of 96.
Buechner wrote nearly 40 books and received various honors, including the O. Henry Award, the Rosenthal Award, the Christianity and Literature Belles Lettres Prize, and was recognized by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and was awarded eight honorary degrees from assorted schools, including Yale University and the Virginia Theological Seminary.
David Brooks, a columnist with The New York Times, wrote earlier this year that he believed Buechner “became a master of uncovering his inner depths.”
“He modeled how a person can experience life more fully, which is a process of scraping off some of the ways adulthood teaches us to see,” Brooks wrote.
“Buechner’s vocation was to show a way to experience the fullness of life. Of death, he wrote, ‘What’s lost is nothing to what’s found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.’”
