Race With the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love - Couverture souple

Pearce, Joseph

 
9781618909626: Race With the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love
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ISBN 10 : 1618909622 ISBN 13 : 9781618909626
Editeur : Saint Benedict Press, 2013

Synopsis

Before he was the world's foremost Catholic biographer, Joseph Pearce was a leader of the National Front, a British-nationalist, white-supremacist group. Before he published books highlighting and celebrating the great Catholic cultural tradition, he disseminated literature extolling the virtues of the white race, and calling for the banishment of all non-white from Britain. Pearce and his cohorts were at the center of the racial and nationalist tensions-often violent-that swirled around London in the late-1970s and early 80s. Eventually Pearce became a top member of the National Front, and the editor of its newspaper, The Bulldog. He was a full-time revolutionary. In 1982 he was imprisoned for six months for hate speech, but he came out with more anger, and more resolve. Several years later, he was imprisoned again, this time for a year and it spurred a sea change in his life. In Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love, Pearce himself takes the reader through his journey from racist revolutionary to Christian, including: The youthful influences that lead him to embrace the National Front and their racist platform His dark, angry, exhilarating but ultimately empty days as a revolutionary on the front lines His imprisonment and subsequent dark night of the soul The role that Catholic luminaries such as G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and C. S. Lewis played in his conversion from racist radical to joyful Christian And his eventual reception in the Catholic Church Race with the Devil is one man's incredible journey to Christ, but it also much more. It is a testament to God's hand active among us and the infinite grace that Christ pours out on his people, showing that we can all turn-or return-to Christ and his Church.

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Before he was the world's foremost Catholic biographer, Joseph Pearce was a leader of the National Front, a British-nationalist, white-supremacist group. Before he published books highlighting and celebrating the great Catholic cultural tradition, he disseminated literature extolling the virtues of the white race, and calling for the banishment of all non-white from Britain. Pearce and his cohorts were at the center of the racial and nationalist tensions often violent that swirled around London in the late-1970s and early 80s. Eventually Pearce became a top member of the National Front, and the editor of its newspaper,The Bulldog. He was a full-time revolutionary. In 1982 he was imprisoned for six months for hate speech, but he came out with more anger, and more resolve. Several years later, he was imprisoned again, this time for a year and it spurred a sea change in his life. In Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love, Pearce himself takes the reader through his journey from racist revolutionary to Christian, including: - The youthful influences that lead him to embrace the National Front and their racist platform - His dark, angry, exhilarating but ultimately empty days as a revolutionary on the front lines - His imprisonment and subsequent dark night of the soul - The role that Catholic luminaries such as G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and C. S. Lewis played in his conversion from racist radical to joyful Christian - And his eventual reception in the Catholic Church Race with the Devil is one man's incredible journey to Christ, but it also much more. It is a testament to God's hand active among us and the infinite grace that Christ pours out on his people, showing that we can all turn or return to Christ and his Church.

Revue de presse

Joseph Pearce's story of imprisonment for racial antagonism and his encounter with the rosary should go down as one of the most compelling beginnings of a conversion in print. Pearce's candor, direct style, and purged heart force our own examination of con­science and assurance of mercy. It's been a long time since I read a spiritual memoir with such enthusiasm and I already knew the story from years of friendship with Joe. Reading it, however, raised it to the dignity and public seriousness it deserves. --Al Kresta, President and CEO, Ave Maria Radio

Race With the Devil is a harrowing and exhilarating- account of how God laid hold of a tumultuous soul and brought it to joy. Very highly recommended. --Dr. Thomas Howard, On Being Catholi

This book is a lively, informative, and many times a surprising book of a life, the con­tours of which most of us had no idea. Pearce always writes well and vividly. This book itself belongs to that Catholic `literary tradition' about which Pearce writes of so well. --James V. Schall, S. J., Emeritus Professor, Georgetown University

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Éditeur
Saint Benedict Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1618909622
ISBN 13 
9781618909626
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
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ISBN 10 :  161890065X ISBN 13 :  9781618900654
Editeur : Saint Benedict Pr, 2013
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