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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464057303321

Autore

Argent Alan

Titolo

Elsie Chamberlain : the independent life of a woman minister : grace amid storms / / Alan Argent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-138-11092-2

1-315-72875-3

1-84465-783-3

1-317-54387-4

Descrizione fisica

xii, 271 p. : ill

Collana

Gender, theology, and spirituality

Disciplina

285.8092

B

Soggetti

Women clergy - England

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction and early life -- 2. The call to the ministry -- 3. Elsie begins her ministry, 1939 -- 4. The return to London, 1941 -- 5. Flying into the storms : chaplain in the Royal Air Force, 1945 -- 6. A season of clear shining : married life -- 7. Vineyard Congregational Church, Richmond-Upon-Thames -- 8. Later years at Vineyard -- 9. International meetings and the CUEW chair -- 10. Elsie at the BBC -- 11. After the BBC : the city temple -- 12. The sky turns black : another crisis -- 13. Sometimes a light surprises : the Congregational Federation -- 14. Hutton Free Church, 1971 -- 15. A local thunderstorm : the Kentish Town situation -- 16. Presidential duties and travelling, 1973-1980 -- 17. Going west, 1980 -- 18. Ministry in Nottingham, 1984-1991 -- 19. Epilogue.