George MacLeod: Founder of the Iona Community - A Biography - Softcover

Ferguson, Ron

 
9781901557534: George MacLeod: Founder of the Iona Community - A Biography

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A war hereo and successful young minister in Edinburgh during the 1920s, George MacLeod shocked his many admirers by taking a post in Govan, a poor and depressed area of Glasgow, and moving inexorably towards socialism and pacifism during the depression years. It was during this time that he embarked on the rebuilding of the ancient abbey on the Isle of Iona, taking with him unemployed craftsmen from the shipyards of the Clyde and trainee ministers, whom he persuaded to work as labourers. Out of this was the Iona Community.

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ISBN 10:  0002152975 ISBN 13:  9780002152976
Verlag: Collins, 1990
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