Leaving Alexandria: a memoir of faith and doubt pdf

理查德·霍洛威 (Richard Holloway) 曾任爱丁堡主教和格雷沙姆神学教授。 现在是一名作家和广播员，他是二十多本书的作者，包括最畅销的离开亚历山大。

Leaving Alexandria: a memoir of faith and doubt pdf 理查德·霍洛威

The acclaimed writer, respected thinker and outspoken former bishop Richard Holloway recounts a life defined by the biggest questions: Who am I? And what is God? At fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home in the Vale of Leven, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood by a religious order in an English monastery. By twenty-five he had been ordained and was working in the slums of Glasgow. Throughout the following forty years, Richard touched the lives of many people in the Church and in the wider community. But behind his confident public face lay a restless, unquiet heart and a constantly searching mind. Why is the Church, which claims to be the instrument of God's love, so prone to cruelty and condemnation? And how can a man live with the tension between public faith and private doubt? In his long-awaited memoir, Richard seeks to answer these questions and to explain how, after many crises of faith, he finally and painfully left the Church. It is a wise, poetic and fiercely honest book.