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PublisherHymns Ancient & Modern LTD

ISBN-10033405656X

ISBN-139780334056560

eBay Product ID (ePID)20038264774

Product Key Features

Book TitleHardest Part : a Centenary Critical Edition

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2018

TopicChristianity / Protestant, Cultural Heritage, Christian Theology / General, Literary, Christianity / Anglican

IllustratorYes

GenreReligion, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorG. A. Studdert Kennedy

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews'More than any other person Studdert Kennedy brings home to us the reality of a God who suffers, not just once on the cross, but in nature, history and contemporary pain. In The Hardest Part we have a theology that arose directly out of the horror and pity of his battlefield experience that still speaks to us today. Its blunt rejection of false ideas of God and vivid images that touched ordinary non-religious soldiers still has a freshness and relevance.'

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal231.4

Edition DescriptionCritical

SynopsisMarking the centenary of the end of the First World War, The Hardest Part offers a profoundly moving theology from within the trenches and offers for the first time, a new edition of a book by arguably the most famous 1st World War Army Chaplain, Studdert Kennedy, known as 'Woodbine Willie'., Stark, moving but with glimmers of humour amongst the wreckage, "The Hardest Part" asks perhaps the hardest question of all when faced with the horrors of the 1st World War - where was God to be found in the carnage of the western front? Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy's answer, that through the cross God shares in human suffering rather than being a 'passionate potentate' looking down unmoved by death, injury and destruction on an immense scale, was, and still is, revolutionary. Marking the centenary both of the end of the First World War and the original publication of The Hardest Part, this new critical edition contains a contextual introduction, a brief biography of Studdert Kennedy, annotated bibliography and the full text of the first edition of the book, with explanatory notes. Contents: The Man, the Padre and the Theologian - Thomas O'Loughlin Gone and Almost Forgotten: The Reception of 'The Hardest Part' - Stuart Bell The Hardest Part - the 1918 text Dedication Preface Author's Introduction 1. What is God like? 2. God in Nature 3. God in History 4. God in the Bible 5. God and Democracy 6. God and Prayer 7. God and the Sacrament 8. God and the Church 9. God and the Life Eternal Postscript, Stark, moving but with glimmers of humour amongst the wreckage, "The Hardest Part" asks perhaps the hardest question of all when faced with the horrors of the 1st World War - where was God to be found in the carnage of the western front? Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy's answer, that through the cross God shares in human suffering rather than being a 'passionate potentate' looking down unmoved by death, injury and destruction on an immense scale, was, and still is, revolutionary.Marking the centenary both of the end of the First World War and the original publication of The Hardest Part, this new critical edition contains a contextual introduction, a brief biography of Studdert Kennedy, annotated bibliography and the full text of the first edition of the book, with explanatory notes.Contents:The Man, the Padre and the Theologian - Thomas O'LoughlinGone and Almost Forgotten: The Reception of 'The Hardest Part' - Stuart BellThe Hardest Part - the 1918 text Dedication Preface Author's Introduction 1. What is God like? 2. God in Nature 3. God in History 4. God in the Bible 5. God and Democracy 6. God and Prayer 7. God and the Sacrament 8. God and the Church 9. God and the Life Eternal Postscript

LC Classification NumberBT133