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This biography of a great Irishman is the story of a man with a vision. It reveals the response of a sincere Christian, who reached high rank in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, to the modern and rapidly advancing Bahá'í Faith. George Townshend renounced his Orders in the Church 'in order to be loyal to Christ as I know Him' and to proclaim publicly that the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh is the long-awaited 'return' promised in the Gospel. At the age of seventy he willingly accepted all the hardships this entailed. The story itself is adventurous and of wide-ranging interest. George Townshend's years in Utah, where he was ordained in Salt Lake City; his academic career in Sewanee, Tennessee where he became Associate Professor of English at the University of the South; his long years near Ballinasloe, County Galway, where he was incumbent of Ahascragh and Archdeacon of Clonfert; to the last decade in a small bungalow outside Dublin -- this forms the outward pattern of a great life. But it is the inner spiritual striving, the modesty, the courage, the relentless persistence in pursuit of his vision which compel our admiration. His literary accomplishment, insufficiently realized as yet, is dealt with in some detail. A leader writer for The Irish Times between 1900 and 1904, he achieved recognition with The Altar on the Hearth (1927) and more widely with The Genius of Ireland (1930). His love for Ireland and his conviction of her great destiny in the reshaping of the world, were powerful motivating forces, which lent vigour and beauty to much of his writing, both prose and poetry. His later and larger works, related to the Bahá'í Faith, have gradually become more widely known and have been translated into a number of languages, and his services to the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, especially in the literary field, are recounted.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Humanities Religion & beliefs Other non-Christian religions

• Plný název: George Townshend
• Autor: David Hofman
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 448
• EAN: 9780853981275
• ISBN: 0853981272
• ID: 15632797
• Nakladatelství: George Ronald Publisher
• Hmotnost: 727 g
• Rozměry: 240 × 150 × 27 mm
• Datum vydání: 21. September 2016

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