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Life after Tragedy: Essays on Faith and the First World War Evoked by Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

Life after Tragedy: Essays on Faith and the First World War Evoked by Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy


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A collection of essays exploring the theological issues raised by the First World War, inspired by the noted wartime chaplain Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy. Much has been written on the centenary of the First World War. However, no book has yet explored the tragedy of the conflict from a theological perspective. Life after Tragedy fills that gap. Taking their cue from the famous British army chaplain Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, seven central essays, all by authors associated with the cathedral where Studdert Kennedy first preached to troops, examine aspects of faith that featured in the war, such as the notion of 'home', poetry, theological doctrine, preaching, social reform, humanitarianism, and remembrance. Each essay applies its reflections to the life of faith today, thus representing a highly original contribution to the history of the First World War in general and the work of Studdert Kennedy in particular. They provide wider theological insight into how, in the contemporary world, 'life' and tragedy, likewise God and suffering, can be integrated.This book will accordingly be of considerable interest to historians, both of the war and of the church; to communities commemorating the war; and to all those who wrestle with current challenges to faith.

Table of Contents:
Illustrations Contributors Foreword by Andrew G. Studdert-Kennedy Preface by Michael W. Brierley and Georgina A. Byrne Abbreviation Part I: Introduction 1 Reconsidering British Religion and the First World War 2 Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy: A Brief Life Part II: Essays from Worcester Cathedral 3 The First World War, Place, and 'Home' 4 Poets in Wartime: A Study of Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy and Geoffrey Dearmer 5 'There Ain't No Throne': Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy and the Doctrine of God 6 Prophecy or Propaganda? Preaching in a Time of War 7 'National Mission'? Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, Edward Lee Hicks, R. H. Tawney, and the Social Witness of the Church of England 8 'The Pity of War': The First World War and Humanitarianism 9 'The Glorious Dead'? Images of Glory in First World War Memorials and the Life of Antony of Egypt Part III: Conclusion 10 English Theology in the First World War and Its Aftermath 11 On Integration, Balance, and Fullness 12 Afterword Bibliography Scripture Index General Index

About the Author :
Michael W. Brierley and Georgina A. Byrne are residentiary canons of Worcester Cathedral.

Review :
Padres were given a rough ride by British memoir writers of the First World War. However, Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, 'Woodbine Willie' to the soldiers, demonstrates how wrong they were. His reflections on the war and its implications for his own Christian faith resonate to this day. The innumerable insights in this powerful book make plain how the conflict's spiritual challenge still reverberates. Michael Brierley and Georgina Byrne have judiciously gathered these measured essays on ministry, suffering, tragedy, and hope: they leave the reader more immersed in sadness, admiration, desolation, and ultimately faith. After all, if Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy's life was a failure, so was that of Jesus. Life after Tragedy is a profound and moving account of the struggle of Christian theology with the ravages of the First World War. . . . Essential reading for anyone trying to understand the earthquake that was the Great War. A significant contribution to the flourishing revisionist scholarship on religion and war, the central essays in this volume . . . offer a set of moving, often provocative reflections on the complex and transformative relations between faith and suffering that are as relevant now as they have ever been.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780718895341
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Lutterworth Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 279
  • Weight: 750 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0718895347
  • Publisher Date: 30 Aug 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Essays on Faith and the First World War Evoked by Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
  • Width: 153 mm


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