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This book is a sequel to Read's This Grace Given (Eerdmans, 1984), which traced his early life up to his liberation from a German POW camp in 1945, a climactic and formative moment in his experience of the grace of God at work in the world. Grace Thus Far covers the next 40, postwar years, beginning with Read's ministry in Scotland, continuing with his move to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, through the civil rights and antiwar movements of the sixties, up to the restless eighties. Read speaks vividly of the challenges involved in picking up the pieces of his life and ministry after his release from gulag IXA, and he attempts to discern the effects of global upheaval, the Holocaust, and the use of the atomic bomb on his role as preacher. A gripping account of one man's struggle with grace. SEM. 285'.137 (B) Read, David Haxton Carswell / Church of Scotland Clergy Biography / World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, German / Prisoners of war Scotland Biography / Prisoners of war Germany Biography [OCLC] 84-21066
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