Life after tragedy: essays on faith and the First World War

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Life After Tragedy: Essays on faith and the First World War evoked by Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, edited by Michael W. Brierley and Georgina A. Byrne.

 

"Whatever else may be true about the Great War, it was surely a cata­strophe. It shook up assumptions about faith, soldiering, class, and cul­ture. Immediately after the War, for the Church of England, one fig­ure especially carried the weight of these troubled assumptions: Geof­frey Studdert Kennedy, aka “Wood­bine Willie”, army chaplain extraordin­aire.This striking and unusual collec­tion of essays takes Studdert Kennedy as a leaping-off point for meditations on the First World War and poetry, the doctrine of God, mission, and preaching, among other topics."

 

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2018/2-february/books-arts/book-reviews/life-after-tragedy-essays-on-faith-and-the-first-world-war-michael-w-brierley-georgina-a-byrne

 

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