Trevor Huddleston: A Life - Hardcover

Denniston, Robin

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9780312227098: Trevor Huddleston: A Life

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ISBN 10: 0312227094 ISBN 13: 9780312227098

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

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An Anglican monk and a charismatic leader of the anti-Apartheid movement, Trevor Huddleston was a friend and hero to many, including Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, and Desmond Tutu. His victory over the racist politics of the nationalist government in South Africa transformed the history and politics of an entire continent. Drawing on the extensive private archive of Huddleston's correspondence, speeches and sermons, Robin Denniston examines the political and spiritual life of one of Britain's most controversial heroes. From his life-changing twelve years in the diocese of Johannesburg, his years as bishop of Masasi in the newly independent Tanzania, and his decade as Bishop of Stepney, Huddleston redefined what the Church of England was capable of being.

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Trevor Huddleston: A Life is Robin Denniston's biography of the Anglican monk who helped lead the anti-apartheid movement. Huddleston served as bishop in several African countries, and first became famous when Naught For Your Comfort, his book about South Africa under apartheid, was published in 1956. Denniston's biography draws on Huddleston's private archives of letters, speeches and sermons, many of which have not been previously published. More importantly, Denniston clearly articulates the most important fact regarding Huddleston's political activism: the bishop's politics were a function of his theology. "It was from his incarnational perception--that you cannot love an unseen god until you perceive Him in those you are sent to serve--that [Huddleston] concluded that the continual, unremitting assault on human dignity which was apartheid in action was an insult to God, and hence an unforgivable, unforgettable blasphemy", Denniston explains. Such sharp analysis, in the context of a lively narrative, illustrated with striking photographs of Huddleston with people such as Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, makes this biography essential reading for anyone concerned with the anti-apartheid movement, or with the nature of Christian political activism in the 20th century. --Michael Joseph Gross

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"He was a pillar of wisdom, humility, and sacrifice to the legions of freedom fighters in the darkest moments of the struggle against the apartheid." --President Nelson Mandela, April 1998 "This intimate story goes to the heart of Huddleston." --"The Observer (UK) "Few biographers have been as well qualified...as the author of this book."--"The Spectator (UK) ..."the facts about the man and his time will draw anyone interested in South African history and in liberation theology."" --Booklist

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