5 responses to “Review: Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt – Richard Holloway”

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   Tony Whatmough

   10/08/2012

   Like you, I found Richard’s book greatly moving. It reduced me to tears on many occasions. But one thing I’ve found interesting over the years, is the effect on so many priests of the Kelham training. I’ve met many over the years, with different styles of preaching, but there is something distinctive about them all. Not all of them regarded Kelham with approval: one described it as a theological Borstal, but whatever, it made an impression on them, and like Richard, it has been life long. I wonder how many other theological colleges have done that?

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   John MacBrayne

   10/08/2012

   Am reading it now. Not quite sure what to make of it to be honest, although thus far I have detected the age old problem of an individual confined by the strictures of an organisation….and a desire to move beyond that and back to a simpler life…not finished yet though!

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   Elizabeth

   01/09/2012

   ‘It is a book that must come top of the list of recent books which someone seeking to understand the modern Scottish Episcopal Church needs to read.’
   What a teaser! What other titles would you place on this list?

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   Allan

   04/09/2012

   ‘Consummate attention seeker’, eh? Well, well……
   And it’s ‘He who’ not ‘whom’. Just saying.

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      kelvin

      04/09/2012

      It takes one to know one.

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