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This is a novel of ideas disguised as the biography of a young man from a Pentecostal fundamentalist background in Oklahoma, who loses his faith while a student at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His spiritual odyssey is narrated by his mentor, a professor at the divinity school -... read more

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If you were living in Chicago In the spring of 1948, and if you read one of the city's newspapers on the Monday following Easter, you may have seen the story.

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  1. Martin Gardner (Author)
 

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