The calling of a cuckoo : not quite an autobiography / David E. Jenkins.
Publication details: London : Continuum, [2003]Description: xxi, 192 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780826449917 : (hbk.)
- 920 22
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Loanable Book | Library | Biography | 920 JEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000438194 |
Browsing Library shelves, Collection: Biography Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
920 JEN A half-baked life : | 920 JEN A life at the centre / | 920 JEN Roy Jenkins : | 920 JEN The calling of a cuckoo : | 920 JER Clive : | 920 JER Fortune's daughter : | 920 JES Goldfinder : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Is it a mistake to take God for granted? -- 1. Belief in God and what it is to be human -- 2. 'God the disturber' -- 3. TV and the beginning of notoriety -- 4. I discover what is not expected of a Bishop -- 5. The fault-line becomes an abyss -- 6. My consecration -- 7. 'Ye have not passed this way heretofore' -- 8. The lightning: my notoriety goes worldwide -- 9. The implications of being carved in stone -- 10. My notorious enthronement sermon -- 11. Bishops and politics -- 12. Political dismissal and ecclesiastical cul-de-sac -- 13. The conflict deepens -- 14. The sevenfold cord of faith -- 15. Going on with God -- Appendix 1: The nature of Christian belief -- Appendix 2: The ordination of women to the priesthood
One of England's most controversial church leaders in the 1980s, Jenkins attempts to explain the man behind the notoriety: how he came to his beliefs, and how that continuing and deepening faith in God carried him through the height of the controversies and remains with him today.
There are no comments on this title.