Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wishful Thinking: a theological ABC
meets , first up, Buechner is historically significant in the field of theology so point no. 5 is met, apart from this, ''Wishful Thinking'' has been the subject of multiple reviews, a quick gsearch brings up reviews in ''The New York Times'' - https://www.nytimes.com/1973/05/13/archives/wishful-thinking-mere-christianity.html "Mere Christianity’ Wishful Thinking A Theological ABC." (review by Edmund Fuller who writes "The same stylistic power, subtlety and originality that have distinguished his novels, from “A Long Day's Dying” (1950) to “Open Heart” (1972), lift “Wishful Thinking” far above commonplace religion books nearly to the level of C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters|“Screwtape Letters.” An artist is at work here in the vineyard of theology, an able aphorist with a natural gift for gnomics, a wit with wisdom." - reinforces point 5:)), ''kirkus'' - https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/frederick-buechner-9/wishful-thinking-a-theological-a-b-c/ star review here, ''CrossCurrents'' - https://www.jstor.org/stable/24457850?seq=1 subscription required, ''Association of College and Research Libraries|Choice'' - https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fTCw_DQH6zkC&pg=PA1403&lpg=PA1403&dq=Wishful+Thinking:+a+theological+ABC+by+Frederick+Buechner+book+reviews&source=bl&ots=hVU49juWLe&sig=ACfU3U2ooRhtgZr4ggrY0EDfRJMV0RUGdg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiD5feM98rtAhXL8HMBHW7uCP84UBDoATAHegQICBAC#v=onepage&q=Wishful%20Thinking%3A%20a%20theological%20ABC%20by%20Frederick%20Buechner%20book%20reviews&f=false here, a couple of dissertations that reference ''Wishful Thinking'' - https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330720/m2/1/high_res_d/1002784121-Myers.pdf here, and https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=mtso1507563666381611&disposition=inline here
— User:Coolabahapple, 12:47, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NBOOK (Wikipedia:Notability)