A Pilgrim's Way - Hardcover

Righter, Walter C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067945442X ISBN 13: 9780679454427

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1998

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The retired Episcopal bishop of Iowa describes how he was charged with heresy for ordaining a gay man in a committed relationship and discusses the conflicting forces at work in his church, the accusation that changed his life, its repercussions, and his continuing work. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

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Walter Cameron Righter was born in Philadelphia in 1923. Following military service in World War II, he received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and his M.Div. from the Berkeley Divinity School, and served churches in Aliquippa and Georgetown, Pennsylvania, and Nashua, New Hampshire. He was consecrated Bishop of Iowa in 1972 and held that post through 1988. Following retirement he served as interim rector at churches in Rockford, Illinois, and Ridgewood, New Jersey, and as an assisting bishop in the Diocese of Newark from 1989 to 1991. He now lives in Alstead, New Hampshire.

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of 1990, Walter C. Righter, acting as an assisting bishop in New Jersey's Episcopal Diocese of Newark, ordained a highly qualified gay man who lived with his partner in a committed relationship. It was not the first such ordination and not even the first highly publicized one, but in 1995, a small group of fellow bishops brought charges against Righter for what he had done.

In A Pilgrim's Way, Bishop Righter tells his own story and the story of the ordination. He uncovers the machinations that set the conditions for such a trial long before the "victim" was selected. He recounts the accusation in 1995 of teaching false doctrine, the long wait for the process to unfold, the harassment, the hearings, the outpouring of support, the media attention, and the church court's eventual finding that no "core doctrine" had been violated. We see Bishop Righter's own rage and fear overcome as he begins to understand what fuels the rage and fear of his accusers. By the

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 067945442X
• ISBN 13: 9780679454427
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168
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