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Duty and Destiny: The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill

Duty and Destiny: The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill

Smith, Gary Scott

Hardcover

Series: Library of Religious Biography (Lrb)

Presidents & Heads of StateReligious BiographiesReligion General

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ISBN10: 0802877001
ISBN13: 9780802877000
Publisher: William B Eerdmans Pub Co
Published: Jan 19 2021
Pages: 255
Weight: 1.14
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

A nuanced portrait of a great historical figure considered everything from a God-haunted man to a stalwart nonbeliever

What did faith mean to Winston Churchill?

Churchill was far from transparent about his religious beliefs and never regularly attended church services as an adult, even considering himself not a pillar of the church but a buttress, in the sense that he supported it from the outside. But Gary Scott Smith assembles pieces of Churchill's life and words to convey the profound sense of duty and destiny, partly inspired by his religious convictions, that undergirded his outlook. Reflecting on becoming prime minister in 1940, he wrote, It felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial. In a similarly grand fashion, he described opposing the Nazis--and later the Soviets--as a struggle between light and darkness, driven by the duty to preserve humane, enlightened, Christian society.

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