A Song for Else (Volume 3: The Sundering)
- by Christopher Zehnder
- Product Code: asfets
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$26.95
This, the third and last volume of the Song for Else carries the story through the aging of Luther’s reform into middle age, its institutionalization, and its contention with the newer and more radical revolutions that are its spawn. The heroism that marked the Reformation’s earlier period has been gentled. Luther’s once radical doctrine has been subordinated to the politics and passions of princes. Its old fervor, taken up by the new sects, is easily agitated into fanaticism. Through this world Lorenz and his Else move in their own private quest for a joy that is almost in their grasp but ever elusive.
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Size: 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN: 978-1-990685-51-4 | $26.95 USD | pbk
ISBN: 978-1-990685-52-1 | $33.95 USD | hardcover
560 pages
A Song for Else is a splendid love story, a coming-of-age novel, and an intimate account of the Protestant Reformation in Germany from the inside. Zehnder deftly juxtaposes historical fact and fictional characters in the opening volume of his trilogy. — Mark Adderley, author of the McCracken Adventure Books and the Matter of Britain series
As Sigrid Undset’s historical novels transport the reader to medieval Norway, Zehnder’s A Song for Else plants one in a Germany on the cusp of reformation. This is historical fiction of the best sort: the kind that not only brings you into the past but allows you to experience the past as the characters would have. The past is not a desiccated stage for action, but a living environment, one we are drawn into through the hopes, fears, and challenges of the characters themselves. —Fr. Raymund Snyder, O.P.
Like The Betrothed, A Song for Else is intimately personal and yet an epic of Christendom. Zehnder's powerful style and vivid imagination bring the reader to root for the nobility and weep over the baseness of an earnest young man's passions, while discovering through youthful eyes the spiritual core and memorable characters that made medieval Germany center stage for one the greatest revolutions in history. —Andrew T. Seeley, Ph.D, Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California
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Christopher Zehnder earned his bachelor of arts degree from Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California, and his master’s in Theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut. He is the general editor for the Catholic Textbook Project and has written four of the books in its history series, and is currently editing a history of Christendom from the ancient world to the Renaissance. In his native state of California, Mr. Zehnder edited two monthlies serving the Los Angeles region and the Bay Area. He has written for various publications on historical, political, and theological subjects. In 2017, he, with his wife, Katherine, and their children, returned to his ancestral Midwest, making their home in Central Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Zehnder are lay members of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans).
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