Dagger John (eBook)
418 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-7252-8829-4 (ISBN)
He was, in real life, the Most Reverend John Hughes, Archbishop of New York, a one-time day laborer and foreman of slaves who became a preacher and pamphleteer and a political force to be reckoned with. No demure ecclesiastic, Hughes was a hard-nosed battler for the rights of immigrant Irish in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. He championed their cause in an age when the Catholic Church was only grudgingly accepted as a partner in the American dream.
Hughes was, moreover, the prototype of the autocratic prelate who would rule the American Catholic Church for the next one hundred years. Squelching democratic strivings among his clergy and laity whenever they appeared, he created a model for the highly structured Romanized church that would eventually dominate the American religious scene.
This book is the first major biography of John Hughes to be published in more than a century. It reflects new research into the life of Hughes and the details of his many struggles. It does not set out to explain the inner impulses of the man--who was, in the end, tightlipped about his private life. But it does shed new light on the public Hughes, a churchman who appeared in the newspapers as often as he appeared in the pulpit. It recounts his raucous, sometimes hilarious battles with the pre-Civil War nativists, with disgruntled clergy from his own church, and with public figures such as James Gordon Bennett. It tells of his (often high-handed) dealings with revolutionaries, politicians, fellow bishops, apostates, presidents, ranting bigots, popes, and his own poor, belligerent, but fiercely devoted Catholic flock.
Richard Shaw is a Catholic priest of the Albany diocese where he has served as a jail chaplain, hospital chaplain, parish curate, and high school instructor. He has published several short stories and completed a novel.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.10.2020 |
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Verlagsort | Eugene |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
Schlagworte | archbishop • Biography • biography and autobiography • Biography: religious and spiritual • Catholic • Christian Church • Christian Churches • Christianity • Church history • Dagger • Dagger John • Denominations • groups • History • History of Religion • Hughes • John • New York • Religious • Rev. Richard Shaw • richard shaw • Roman Catholic Church • Roman Catholicism |
ISBN-10 | 1-7252-8829-X / 172528829X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-7252-8829-4 / 9781725288294 |
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