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Church going gone
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- Book Synopsis
- In this colourful memoir, from 1950âs childhood to the COVID crisis, Brian Mountford describes his life as a priest, which has spanned a period of immense social change and seen the secularisation of Britain to the point where 52% of the population say they have âno religionâ. Opening with a vibrant account of London in the Sixties, he moves to Cambridge college life in the Seventies, Suburbia in the Eighties, and thirty years as Vicar of the âmost visited parish church in Englandâ, the University Church, Oxford. Rich in humour and anecdote, he unpacks his liberal theological ideas on the way, addressing questions such as God, the meaning of life, sexual ethics, and the relationship between doubt and faith. A central idea is that the abandonment of organised religion has not eradicated spiritual questioning and, following Philip Larkinâs poem Church Going, from which the book takes its title, people of all ages are forever âsurprising/A hunger in (themselves) to be more serious.â Both the story and the essay content will fascinate many, many more people than actually go to church.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781789048124
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Christian Alternative, (29 October 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 328
- Weight
- 326 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 140 x 24 mm
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