William Sloane Coffin, Jr. : a holy impatience /

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A magnet for controversy, the media, and followers, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin was the premiere voice of northern religious liberalism for more than a quarter-century, and a worthy heir to the Rev. Martin Luther King. From his pulpits at Yale University and, later, New York City's Riverside...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goldstein, Warren
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Coffin, William Sloane, > Jr., > 1924-2006.
Coffin, William Sloane, > Jr., > 1924-2006
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) > Clergy > Biography.
United Church of Christ > Clergy > Biography.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
United Church of Christ
Political activists > United States > Biography.
Activistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
RELIGION > Christianity > Presbyterian.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Religious.
Clergy
Political activists
United States
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The great war, Greenwich Village, and the Upper East Side
  • Early years
  • Europe : music and war
  • Russians, White and Red
  • The education of a warrior-priest
  • From education to vocation
  • "Bus-riding chaplain"
  • Preaching the word : Coffin in demand
  • Wading into the big muddy
  • Moments of truth : civil disobedience and the draft
  • Marriage and family life
  • Activist episodes
  • Interregnum
  • Down by the riverside
  • "Flunking retirement"
  • A holy impatience.

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