Michael Battle

Black Battle, White Knight (eBook, ePUB)

The Authorized Biography of Malcolm Boyd

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating profile of one of the most colorful, controversial and celebrated religious figures of our time, Malcolm Boyd-best-selling author, civil rights activist, gay cleric, and spiritual director.

Through unparalleled access to the personal recollections, writings, and archival records of Malcolm Boyd, Michael Battle provides profound insight into one of America's most celebrated-and reviled-public religious figures. In the dialogue between Battle, a younger, black heterosexual Christian, the reader comes to view this older, white, gay Christian's life of activism and ministry with a fresh perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Naval Institute Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781596272279
• Artikelnr.: 49440861

Autorenporträt

Michael Battle is the Extraordinary Professor at the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice, the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and formerly taught at General Theological Seminary in New York where he was the Herbert Thompson Professor of Church and Society and Director of the Desmond Tutu Center. He was ordained a priest by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and later given one of the highest Anglican Church distinctions as "Six Preacher," by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Battle has published nine books, including Reconciliation: the Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu, and Ubuntu: I in You and You in Me. He lives in Knightdale, North Carolina.