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001 2012429865
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008 111107s2011 enka b 001 0beng d
010 $a 2012429865
020 $a9781857597363 (hbk.)
020 $a1857597362 (hbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn751724683
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050 00 $aBX5199.J58$bB88 2011
082 04 $a283.42092$222
100 1 $aButler, John R.
245 14 $aThe Red Dean of Canterbury :$bthe public and private faces of Hewlett Johnson /$cJohn Butler.
260 $aLondon :$bScala,$c2011.
300 $axi, 292 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $a"In the mid-twentieth century, few people in Britain divided public opinion more than Hewlett Johnson. To the high-profile Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, the principles of communism were all but indistinguishable from Christian teaching about the Kingdom of God on earth, and he used his position to promote his beliefs. A global campaigner for peace in the Cold War era, he had audiences with Gandhi, Stalin, Khrushchev, Tito, Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En-Lai, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Wherever he spoke and preached, he was either adored as a Christian visionary or hated as a mouthpiece of Soviet propaganda. In his timely new biography, drawing for the first time on Johnson's own personal papers and other previously unexplored archives, including those of M15, John Butler explores the charismatic and intriguing figure of the 'Red Dean'"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of dust jacket.
600 10 $aJohnson, Hewlett,$d1874-1966.
600 10 $aJohnson, Hewlett,$d1874-1966$xPolitical and social views.
610 20 $aChurch of England$xClergy$vBiography.
650 0 $aDeans, Cathedral and collegiate$zEngland$zCanterbury$vBiography.
650 0 $aCommunism and Christianity.