Research Catalog

Title

The Red Dean of Canterbury : the public and private faces of Hewlett Johnson / John Butler.

Author

Butler, John R.

Publication

London : Scala, c2011.

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Details

Description

xi, 292 p., plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

"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.

Alternative Title

Public and private faces of Hewlett Johnson

Subject

• Johnson, Hewlett, 1874-1966
• Johnson, Hewlett, 1874-1966 > Political and social views
• Church of England > Clergy > Biography
• Deans, Cathedral and collegiate > England > Canterbury > Biography
• Communism and Christianity

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-276) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Finding a vocation -- Vicar of St Margaret's Altrincham -- Dean of Manchester -- From Manchester to Canterbury -- Being Dean in the 1930s -- International traveller -- The Socialist sixth of the world -- The Canterbury chapter at war -- Life in the wartime Deanery -- Canterbury under attack -- A family apart -- Victory in Europe -- Taking America by storm -- Trials, travels and tribulations -- Russia and China revisited -- Being Dean in the 1950s -- Travelling on -- The final years -- Convictions and contradictions.

ISBN

• 9781857597363 (hbk.)
• 1857597362 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 751724683
• SCSB-10957570

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library