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In the Beauty of the Lilies is a 1996 novel by John Updike. It takes its title from a line of the abolitionist song " The Battle Hymn of the Republic ." The novel received the 1997 Ambassador Book Award for Fiction .
In the beauty of the lillies Christ was born across the sea with a beauty in his bosom that transfigures you and me. As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, while God is marching on. My question is, what does it mean when it says that Jesus was born "in the beauty of the lillies"?
1 gen 1996 · One hot afternoon in 1910, the Reverend Clarence Wilmot, standing in the rectory of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, experiences the last vestiges of his faith departing. True to this revelation, Clarence abandons the pulpit and becomes an encyclopedia salesman.
In the Beauty of the Lilies can best be classified as a chronicle novel, a popular genre in twentieth-century American fiction. Linked to historical events, it depicts the lives of a single...
Deriving its title from the “Battle-Hymn of the Republic,” In the Beauty of the Lilies is a novel that examines the dynamics of faith, family, and freedom in a nation undergoing radical social...
21 gen 1997 · In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Novel. Paperback – January 21, 1997. by John Updike (Author) 4.0 147 ratings. See all formats and editions. In the Beauty of the Lilies begins in 1910 and traces God’s relation to four generations of American seekers, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey.
About In the Beauty of the Lilies. Faith ultimately bursts into flame as Updike’s major new novel, charting the lives of one family through four generations, shows readers an America whose dream of perfection is translated into an obsession with God and the Moving Picture.
