Harry Willson

Broschiertes Buch

Freedom From God

Restoring the Sense of Wonder

Beschreibung

Thinking Aloud Allowed! Thinking about God went into a black hole in the '60s with "God Is Dead." Fundamentalism doesn't count, because there's no thinking there. Here's a book that goes all the way into that black hole and comes out the far end -- into liberation. This challenge is for persons who can read and like to think, and can still sense wonder. The fresh air is wonderful! A study in candor, a philosophical broadside of profound importance, a guide to personal liberation, an invitation to wonder - a book that links truth-seekers and truth-tellers. "Freedom From God" is the product of a lifetime of thinking and reading. For eight years Willson was a card-carrying "Master of Divinity," serving as missionary/pastor in New Mexico. Then he left the church in sorrow and anger over its failure to speak out against the Vietnam War. He taught high school for ten years, then quit teaching "to write," and entered what he came to call "the real world," thinking all the while. Eventually Willson decided that the word "God" was too contaminated to be useful, but found he experienced wonder, more than ever.

Autor

Harry Willson, 1932-2010 Harry Willson was born in Montoursville, Pennsylvania. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry and math at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and a Master of Divinity in ancient Middle-Eastern language and literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. He became bilingual through one year of Spanish studies at the University of Madrid, and holds the Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera from the University of Salamanca, Spain. Later he studied Spanish, literature, philosophy, mythology, and theater arts at the University of New Mexico. He served as student pastor at the Presbyterian Church, Hamburg, New Jersey while in seminary. In 1958, Harry moved his family to New Mexico, where he served as bilingual missionary pastor in Bernalillo, Alameda, and Placitas, and later as Permanent Clerk of the Presbytery of Rio Grande, Chairman of Enlistments and Candidates, Chairman of the Commission on Race, and Moderator of the Presbytery. In 1965, Harry answered Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. s call for clergy to go to Selma, Alabama to assist in voter registration and demonstrations against police brutality. He participated in the successful march from Selma to Montgomery on March 25, where he personally witnessed Dr. King deliver his How Long, Not Long speech. Not long after that, in 1966, Harry left the church in sorrow and anger over its failure to take a stand against the Vietnam War. He spent the summer of 1967 on the staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta, assigned as their representative to the Atlanta Alliance for Peace. After quitting the clergy, Harry taught, first at the Albuquerque Academy and then at Sandia Preparatory School, after which he retired from teaching to devote himself to his writing. His fiction and nonfiction attracted a diverse and enthusiastic audience. From 1996 to 2010, he wrote a monthly column for the Amador Publishers website. He was also published in a variety of local and national periodicals. Readers frequently corresponded with Harry to let him know how much they were personally touched by his writing; some claimed he had changed their lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amador Publishers, LLC
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 283g
• ISBN-13: 9780938513698
• ISBN-10: 0938513699
• Artikelnr.: 60980334