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Autore: | Griffiths Leslie |
Titolo: | A view from the edge : an autobiography / / Leslie Griffiths ; foreword by Huw Edwards |
Pubblicazione: | London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2010 |
©2010 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
Disciplina: | 287.67309034 |
Soggetto topico: | Methodists - Great Britain |
Clergy - Great Britain | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Persona (resp. second.): | EdwardsHuw |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | A view from the edge |
ISBN: | 1-282-82214-4 |
9786612822148 | |
1-4411-8602-6 | |
1-4411-9736-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459521003321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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