George Bell, Bishop of Chichester : church, state, and resistance in the age of dictatorship

George Bell, Bishop of Chichester : church, state, and resistance in the age of dictatorship / Andrew Chandler.

It was to George Bell, an English bishop, that Dietrich Bonhoeffer sent his last words before he was executed at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945. Why he did so becomes clear from Andrew Chandler's new biography of George Kennedy Allen Bell (1883-1958). As he traces the arc of B...

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Main Author: Chandler, Andrew (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016.
Subjects:
Bell, G. K. A. > (George Kennedy Allen), > 1883-1958.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, > 1906-1945.
Church of England > Bishops > Biography.
Church of England > History > 20th century.
Anglican Communion > Bishops > Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
England > Church history > 20th century.
Biography.
Church history.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: The little blue notebook
  • Beginnings, 1883-1914
  • To Lambeth Palace, 1914-1924
  • The Canterbury Deanery, 1924-1929
  • Chichester, 1929-1932
  • The German vortex, 1933-1947
  • A disintegrating peace, 1937-1939
  • The war of faiths, 1939-1942
  • Resistance in Germany and the politics of war, 1942-1945
  • The new world disorder, 1945-1948
  • Ecumenical high tide, 1948-1954
  • Toward the end...1958
  • The place of George Bell.

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