William Sloane Coffin, Jr : a holy impatience / Warren Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Warren.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006.

Coffin, William Sloane.

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)--Clergy--Biography.

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

United Church of Christ--Clergy--Biography.

United Church of Christ.

Political activists--United States--Biography.

Political activists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 379 p.) ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A magnet for controversy, the media, and followers, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. was the premier voice of northern religious liberalism for more than a quarter-century, and a worthy heir to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. From his pulpits at Yale University and, later, New York City's Riverside Church, Coffin focused national attention on civil rights, the anti-Vietnam War movement, disarmament, and gay rights. This revealing biography-based on unparalleled access to family papers and candid interviews with Coffin, his colleagues, family, friends, lovers, and wives-tells for the first time the remarkable story of Coffin's life. An army and CIA veteran before assuming the post of Yale University chaplain at the youthful age of 33, Coffin gained notoriety as a leader of a dangerous civil rights Freedom Ride in 1961, as a defendant in the "Boston Five" trial of draft resisters in 1969, and as the preeminent voice of liberal religious dissent into the 1980's. This book encompasses Coffin's turbulent private life as well as his flamboyant, joyful public career, while dramatically illuminating the larger social movements that consumed his days and defined his times.

Contents:

The great war, Greenwich Village, and the Upper East Side

Early years

Europe : music and war

Russians, White and Red

The education of a warrior-priest

From education to vocation

"Bus-riding chaplain"

Preaching the word : Coffin in demand

Wading into the big muddy

Moments of truth : civil disobedience and the draft

Marriage and family life

Activist episodes

Interregnum

Down by the riverside

"Flunking retirement"

A holy impatience.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-369) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-73444-6

9786611734442

0-300-13505-X

OCLC:

1024051651