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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459521003321

Autore

Griffiths Leslie

Titolo

A view from the edge : an autobiography / / Leslie Griffiths ; foreword by Huw Edwards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-82214-4

9786612822148

1-4411-8602-6

1-4411-9736-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Disciplina

287.67309034

Soggetti

Methodists - Great Britain

Clergy - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Prologue; 1 Childhood; 2 Education; 3 Haiti; 4 One of Mr Wesley's Preachers; 5 A Wider Audience; 6 Wesley's Chapel; 7 A Bigger Stage; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Leslie Griffiths' story begins in real poverty in South Wales. Thanks to his outstanding intellect and a grammar school education, he became the youngest ever staff member at the University of Wales, before the call to ordained ministry led him, via Cambridge, to Haiti to work with some of the poorest people on earth.       . At the height of the Duvalier dynasty's power, he experienced Liberation Theology before it had been articulated and was the biographer of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Roman Catholic priest and Liberation Theologian who became Haiti 's President.     In England , Leslie Gr