• Leaving Alexandria

    A Memoir of Faith and Doubt

    Richard Holloway Canongate Books Ltd SQU 9999902421758 Article 0,00 €
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    Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2013. The acclaimed writer, respected thinker and outspoken former bishop Richard Holloway recounts a life defined by the biggest questions: Who am I? And what is God?At fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home in the Vale of Leven, north of Glasgow, and travelled hu...
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  • Details

    • Book binding : Hardback
    • Preservation state : 3. Good
    • Publication Date : 15/03/2019
    • Year of edition : 0
    • Authors : Richard Holloway
    • Number of pages : 358
    Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2013. The acclaimed writer, respected thinker and outspoken former bishop Richard Holloway recounts a life defined by the biggest questions: Who am I? And what is God?At fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home in the Vale of Leven, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood by a religious order in an English monastery. By twenty-five he had been ordained and was working in the slums of Glasgow. Throughout the following forty years, Richard touched the lives of many people in the Church and in the wider community. But behind his confident public face lay a restless, unquiet heart and a constantly searching mind.Why is the Church, which claims to be the instrument of God's love, so prone to cruelty and condemnation? And how can a man live with the tension between public faith and private doubt? In his long-awaited memoir, Richard seeks to answer these questions and to explain how, after many crises of faith, he finally and painfully left the Church. It is a wise, poetic and fiercely honest book.

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