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Chargement... Augustus Topladypar Douglas Bond
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Excellent little volume about the obscure author of a famous hymn ("Rock of Ages"). Toplady died of tuberculosis at age 38 and little is known about his life apart from his own writings and those of a few contemporaries. The figure that emerges from Douglas Bond's book is an appealing one of a man deeply aware of his sinfulness and his need of Christ's saving work, a warm and engaged pastor, and an author of many poems that have found their way down through the years into hymnbooks (although they seem to be vanishing, bit by bit, unfortunately). The book seemed a mite repetitive at times (perhaps due to the paucity of source material) but is eminently readable and very much worthwhile. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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What is one to make of a man described as 'strangely compounded, peculiarly constituted, and oddly framed'? It conjures up in the mind an image of Stevenson's Mr. Hyde, or Shelley's Frankenstein, or Hugo's Quasimodo. But such is J. C. Ryle's (1816-1900) description of Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778), author of what has been called the best-loved English hymn.One wonders why someone would bother writing a biography -- or reading one -- about a strange, peculiar, odd person. Nevertheless, Ryle declared that no account of Christianity in England in the 18th century would be complete without featuring the remarkable Toplady.Bond says that the purpose of the book is to 'pull back the shroud that has covered Toplady, to unmask the caricature that has shaped his memory as merely a raw-boned and harsh controversialist'. The reader is shown what we can learn from Toplady for today. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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