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Pennsylvania was to be, in its founder''s words, a bold Holy Experiment in religious freedom and toleration, a haven for those fleeing persecution in an increasingly intolerant England and across Europe. An activist, political theorist, and the proprietor of his own colony, Penn would become a household name in the New World, despite spending just four years on American soil. Though Penn is an iconic figure in both American and British history, controversy swirled around him during his lifetime. In his early twenties, Penn became a Quaker-an act of religious as well as political rebellion that put an end to his father''s dream that young William would one day join the English elite. Yet Penn went on to a prominent public career as a Quaker spokesman, political agitator, and royal courtier. At the height of his influence, Penn was one of the best-known Dissenters in England and walked the halls of power as a close ally of King James II. At his lowest point, he found himself jailed on suspicion of treason, and later served time in debtor''s prison. Despite his importance, William Penn has remained an elusive character-many people know his name, but few know much more than that. Andrew R. Murphy offers the first major biography of Penn in more than forty years, and the first to make full use of Penn''s private papers. The result is a complex portrait of a man whose legacy we are still grappling with today. At a time when religious freedom is hotly debated in the United States and around the world, William Penn''s Holy Experiment serves as both a beacon and a challenge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Murphy's William Penn: A Life is a long overdue, revisionary interpretation of this icon in America's pantheon. Readers of all stripes will welcome this addition to their bookshelf of Americana. * Journal of Religion *\u003cbr\u003eExcellent and highly readable...Andrew R. Murphy may well be the world's greatest authority on William Penn.... This authoritative biography thus represents the culmination of a long and deep engagement with the life and ideas of William Penn and the broader religious and political context in which he lived. It is a tremendous achievement—a definitive biography that will last for many years to come. * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003eMurphy gives us a meticulously researched account of the nuances of Penn's dealings with the varied issues and groups he confronted during his extraordinary life, providing an invaluable resource for anyone with a serious interest in the history of Quakerism, the development of governmental theory, or the vexed politics of Penn's 'holy experiment'. * Richard Francis, Spectator *\u003cbr\u003ean outstanding achievement ... we are offered as much biographical detail as anyone could desire ... [Penn] has found a fine biographer in Andrew Murphy. * Jonathan Wright, The Herald *\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Murphy's scholarly and pleasurable biography is extensively researched in the two continents and is at home in both ... William Penn is a model of fair-mindedness. * Blair Worden, Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eAn important contribution to our understanding of the life and legacy of William Penn. * Quaker Religious Thought *\u003cbr\u003eenlightening * The Friend *\u003cbr\u003eThere is much to applaud in Murphy's biography. His careful reading of Penn's papers and attention to detail affords readers unique insights into this complicated man and his legacy. * Robynne Rogers Healey, Journal of Church and State *\u003cbr\u003e\"Andrew Murphy begins by portraying William Penn neither as a statue on a pedestal nor a cartoon on a cereal box but as an old man in a debtors' prison. He then unfolds the tale of an admirably complicated figure-a terrible businessman yet a brilliant colonial promoter, a confidant of kings yet a member of a despised sect, a man of deep spiritual conviction yet an fierce advocate of religious liberty. William Penn: A Life is a remarkable achievement.\" -- Daniel K. Richter, author of Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts\u003cbr\u003e\"Of all the colonial founders, William Penn is the most important and the least studied -- a complex, profound man consigned to caricature in the public mind. In the first full biography in almost half a century, Murphy has gone a long way to remedy this, showing Penn as a towering figure in England and its colonies. Eclipsing Penn's earlier biographers, Murphy mines a generation of research on Penn and the Quakers to give us a broad-gauged, highly readable biography that balances Penn's personal tribulations and financial difficulties with his brilliance as a defender of the Society of Friends, a spokesman for political and religious freedom, and a promoter of pacifism, inter-group comity, and representative government.\" -- Gary B. Nash, author of The Unknown American Revolution\u003cbr\u003e\"A lively, engaging study of William Penn, meeting the highest standards of scholarship. Andrew Murphy expertly captures all sides of Penn's complex life and personality, including his idealism, his religious and political activism, his spendthrift and debt-ridden ways, and his multifarious wielding of power which brought him acclaim and opprobrium on both sides of the Atlantic. A magnificent accomplishment.\" -- Stephen W. Angell, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies\u003cbr\u003e\"Andrew Murphy's intricate and surprisingly personality-driven biography of Pennsylvania's founding weirdo William Penn is similar to many books on this year's list in that it's easily the new definitive work on its subject. Murphy ranges over the whole width of Penn's fascinating life in a confident and knowledgeable way no other biographer has ever approached.\" -- Open Letter Review\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a highly informative, well thought out and heavily researched biography that also closely explains the economics, politics and religion of this period.\" -- Pennsylvania Literary Journal\u003cbr\u003e\"For anyone desiring comprehensive knowledge of Penn's life, this is the book to read.\" -- Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgmentsGuide to Notes and AbbreviationsPrologueChapter 1 - OriginsChapter 2 - A Young Man on the MoveChapter 3 - Cork and ConvincementChapter 4 - CelebrityChapter 5 - The Great OpinionistChapter 6 - American Affairs and Popish PlotsChapter 7 - Penn's WoodsChapter 8 - To America and Back AgainChapter 9 - Trouble on Both Sides of the AtlanticChapter 10 - Seclusion and SolitudeChapter 11 - A Return to Public LifeChapter 12 - Pirates, Penn, and the PennsylvaniansChapter 13 - Back in EnglandChapter 14 - William, Jr.Chapter 15 - \"Prison\" and AfterEpilogueBibliographyIndex","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732534407511,"sku":"9780190234249","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"our-hearts-are-restless-9780197649046","title":"Our Hearts Are Restless","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA guided tour of spiritual autobiography that grants readers new insights and appreciation of the genreThe genre of spiritual autobiography has flourished ever since Augustine essentially invented it in the fourth century. In Our Hearts Are Restless, Richard Lischer--himself the author of two spiritual memoirs--takes readers on a guided tour of the genre, examining the life writings of twenty-one figures from the expected (Thomas Merton) to the surprising (James Baldwin); from the sublime Julian of Norwich and Emily Dickinson to the outrageous Anne Lamott.Lischer is a perceptive reader and an engaging guide in the art and craft of spiritual writing. Our Hearts Are Restless shows readers how history''s most brilliant spiritual writers have sought and found a pattern of meaning in the face of tragedy, conflict, and the responsibilities of daily life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLives--we learn to live by attending to lives. In our hunger for coherence we are tempted to simplify the lives of others as well as our lives. In this beautifully written book Richard Lischer's truthful account of lives, Christian and non-Christian lives, testifies to the complexity of what it means to live well. In this time when it is by no means clear what it means to live honesty as a Christian, Lischer's account of these lives gives us a way to go on. This is a book of wisdom that took a lifetime to write. * Stanley Hauerwas, author of Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir *\u003cbr\u003eLischer has a storyteller's genius, a pastor's instinct for emotional authenticity, a preacher's eye for tracing gospel truth, a scholar's skill at critical inquiry, and a Christian understanding of love and suffering. As he opens up these faithful lives, he shows how true is John Donne's dictum: 'The art of salvation is but the art of memory.' * Ellen F. Davis, author of Opening Israel's Scriptures *\u003cbr\u003eA book holy and humane, reverential yet playful, absorbing but provocative, challenging and deeply affirming. After reading you feel wiser, more compassionate, more perceptive, more comfortable with your own struggles and shortcomings—but above all, eager to revisit your own yearnings and searchings, and recognise in them the loving patience of the Holy Spirit. Richard Lischer has shown us where treasure is to be found, and reignited our desire to find it. * Sam Wells, Author of Humbler Faith, Bigger God *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an odd but oddly compelling book...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, general readers. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eThere is much to ponder in this humane and challenging book. * Paradigm Explorer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Artistry of the Soul  Search and Surrender 1. Augustine: Restless Traveler 2. Augustine: Traveler's Rest 3. Thomas Merton: Journey Through Purgatory            Revelations 4. Julian of Norwich: Seeing is Believing 5. 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All the time Bonhoeffer was writing theology on how to live as a Christian in those circumstances and what the future of Church might be given its current betrayal of the Gospel. Due to his family contacts with senior army figures, who employed him to travel abroad – trying, unsuccessfully, to get support from the Allies for an army coup – Bonhoeffer avoided call up and arrest until 1943. He acted as pastor to the plotters, wrestling theologically with the tension between Christian faith and a plot to kill. In prison, Bonhoeffer was pastor to other prisoners and even to guards. The inspiring thing about this unlikely hero is that, the more he was stripped of his privileged life – of his career, his ministry, family, friends, even of a clear conscience – the more free and even joyful he became. 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Marsh records that for Bonhoeffer, when on his pre-ordination parish stint in Barcelona, ‘if his theology was being stretched and shaken, certain habits of mind did not change at all. He would continue to cajole his parents for money.’ Marsh is too polite to point out the stark contrast this affords with Bethge’s version of events which depict Bonhoeffer as unswervingly a man of unstinting generosity. Although Bethge is reputed to have had the gift of ‘clear, open and reverent seeing’ it has taken Marsh to bring us the reality of this Bonhoeffer who (while in Barcelona) was prone to ‘drink hardly any water, but rather exclusively wine . . . spent most of his day in the bathtub, and fretted mightily over his wardrobe’ (p. 81). Bonhoeffer’s time in London brings up further discrepancies between Bethge and Marsh where the former depicts him as a workaholic oppositional pastor and the latter as one whose evenings were for the theatre and the cinema, followed by drinks and dinner and more conversation, often continuing until well after midnight, the flow of meditation, music, theology and storytelling ‘all following one another, blending into one another till 2 or 3 a.m.’ (p. 201). Marsh then goes on to describe in unforgettable terms one of the Bonhoeffer\/Barth wartime meetings in Switzerland:  not so well timed, which he (Bonhoeffer) gathered from the fretful demeanour of Barth’s wife, Nelly, when she greeted him at the front door. Things were uneasy within the plain three-storey house on the Bruderholtzallee, for the great Reformed theologian, who, as noted earlier, had single-handedly retrieved the language of Christian Orthodoxy from its modernist reductions, had performed an even more astonishing feat: he had managed to move his beautiful assistant, Charlotte von Kirschbaum, [with whom he was having an affair] into the household. (p. 311)  The reader is left reeling in shock at the thought of arguably the greatest theologian of the last century living almost openly in a me´nage a` trois. Not only this, Marsh, in scholarly fashion, makes the case that the Bonhoeffer\/ Bethge relationship was for Bonhoeffer an affaire du coeur, reciprocated only so far by Bethge. Details that hitherto have seemed only trivial suddenly appear in a wholly new light when the full implications of this assertion are taken into consideration. There is sufficient depth of analysis provided to unsettle the reader’s previously held convictions (or assumptions) regarding Bonhoeffer’s inner life as details of their ‘bromance’ are laid bare. Marsh’s related contention about Bonhoeffer’s engagement to Maria von Wedemeyer is shocking in its straightforwardness: Bethge ‘left’ Bonhoeffer to become engaged to a seventeen- year-old young woman and Bonhoeffer’s response was to ‘get hitched’ so as to ‘get even’ or ‘back in favour’. Those who find this too hard to digest will take small comfort from the details of Bonhoeffer’s will, which Marsh adduces as powerful evidence in favour of his contention. Along similar lines, readers of every persuasion will welcome the debunking (finally!) of the previously accepted fabrication and sanitization of the actual details of Bonhoeffer’s death.  For me, this publication is an excellent companion to Bethge. Here, time has perhaps cleared minds, and the perspectives Marsh provides are welcome. Indeed, with the advent of Strange Glory, has Bonhoeffer biography turned from the phraseological to the real? -- John H. McCabe * Theology journal *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a prestigious and exhilarating book – a study of Bonhoeffer’s life by a scholar, in Charles Marsh, who has been through in his research. It had been endorsed by significant people in the field and I add my few words with humility. It is a long book, with extensive notes to assure the reader of the veracity of the sources of information.  At first I questioned the detail in the writing and wondered at its significance. But, as I read further, Bonhoeffer came alive, as a person, in the descriptions of events, places and people.   Bonhoeffer was born into a wealthy German family and experienced the level of financial support and comfort throughout his life that many of us can only dream of. Even in his final days in prison he was still being supplied with suitable clothes, food, writing materials and books that he requested. His family stood by him although they could not have expected that he would become a theologian. He was not a devout Christian as a child. His studies at University took him into philosophy and hence to theology. His doctoral thesis was titled \"Sanctorum Communio\" – The Communion of Saints, with a sub-title \"A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church\". He defended this and was awarded his doctorate in 1927.  During his early life Bonhoeffer travelled significantly and his time in Italy and America was influential in the development of his views on Christianity. He moved between academics study and his work as a pastor (in London for a time), never really settling to be completely one or the other. He wrote extensively; letters to friends, papers of his developing views, and much of his writing has been preserved.  The picture of his early family life gives an understanding of how he became the person he was. He was a twin, having a twin sister Sabine, and they were 6 and 7 of a family of 8. He was loved and protected and somewhat indulged, whilst also being given the opportunity to become his own self. At first my own feelings were that he has a very easy life and that the lack of deprivation would not have given him insight into the suffering of others. But what it did do was to give him the luxury of time to reflect and to study, safe from the trails of having to earn a living. He did work for payment but was always supplemented with resources from his parents.  For me the most startling and interesting part of the book is in the explanation of the rise of Hitler and the attitude towards the Jewish people. We all know that Hitler hated Jews and set about exterminating them but I don’t think I had previously understood that this was linked to a denial of the Old Testament and the supremacy of Jesus Christ. The birth of the German Christian Church under Hitler (previously Lutheran) was not dissimilar to the establishment of the Church of England, with the head of state as head of the Church. But Hitler took this a stage further to claim that the Jewish people were the murderers of Christ and therefore not the people of God and must be removed. The descriptions in the Marsh book help us to see the insanity in Hitler and the way he used his charismatic power to control everyone. In the end there was only one choice for German people – obey or die. Leading academics and people of influence plotted to kill Hitler in order to defend people who could not defend themselves. The plot was discovered and many people, including Bonhoeffer, were imprisoned. It was to take two years before an incriminating letter was found, but when it was, he was executed.  Marsh has captured the essence of Bonhoeffer in his writing. He has charted the development of the German Christians, connecting to Luther and assisting in deeper understanding. The book is called Strange Glory and it is while Bonhoeffer is in prison that he writes to his close friend Bethge to summarise what he has learned by the age of 38, that \"the word of God does not ally itself with the rebellion of mistrust, but reigns in the strangest of glories\". This led to the title of the book and the culmination of the years of study which took Bonhoeffer to his position of acceptance of the mystery of God and the \"strange glory\" of knowing that we don’t know, we can only accept and trust.  It felt daunting to pick up a book of such weight (literally as well as figuratively) and moment. 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