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Manley, Ken R.

 
9781725299603: T. E. Ruth (1875-1956): Preacher and Controversialist
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ISBN 10: 1725299607 ISBN 13: 9781725299603
Casa editrice: Wipf and Stock, 2021

Sinossi

T. E. Ruth (1875–1956) was one of the most controversial Baptist ministers ever to serve in Australia. After a successful career in England as preacher, pastor, and writer, Ruth came to the significant Collins Street Baptist Church in Melbourne in 1914. During the tumultuous years of the World War, Ruth cared for the bereaved and bewildered people in his congregation and in the city. He also led public debates about conscription, engaging in intense platform clashes with his Catholic opponent, Archbishop Daniel Mannix. He later moved to the Pitt Street Congregational Church in Sydney where he was soon involved in public opposition to the Labor premier J. T. Lang as well as becoming a popular columnist in the secular press.
To his critics he was a “sectarian bigot” and was mocked as “Ruthless Ruth”; to others, he was an ardent Empire loyalist, an admired and successful Protestant defender. Some critics accused him of being a Christian spiritualist and others have suggested that he formulated a theology for fascism. Ruth denounced millennial Adventism and hellfire eschatology as he affirmed universalism and a continuing spiritual development after death.
This fascinating study of a progressive thinker, public theologian, and controversialist illuminates one of the more divisive and formative periods in Australian religious and political life.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Ken R. Manley, former Principal and Lecturer in Church History Whitley College, University of Melbourne, is author of From Here to ""Eternity"": A History of Australian Baptists (2006) and ""An Honoured Name"": Samuel Pearce Carey (1862-1953) (2016).

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Editore
Wipf and Stock
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1725299607
ISBN 13 
9781725299603
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
368
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