Part VIII of the Sunstone Classics Series Wayne C. Booth was a distinguished literary critic, the author of The Rhetoric of Fiction, and a professor of English and literature at the University of Chicago. This excerpt is from a Sunstone article published in 1998. It starts on page 25 of issue 109. Where am I …
By Wayne C. Booth Can it be good—even spiritually essential—to be a hypocrite? This professor of rhetoric thinks so. Wayne Booth shares the fruits of his life-long interior discussion between his boyhood Mormon religion fundamentalism and his adult “faith.” All of it, the direct result of his two years as a conflicted, intellectual LDS …
