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Issue Details: First known date: 1968... 1968 Three Cheers for the Paraclete
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'Set in a Roman Catholic diocese,...Three Cheers for the Paraclete is about the dilemma of the rebel who knows that established authority is wrong but doesn't know how to put it right because he is himself too much a part of it. It is also about a critical religious issue...the conflict between a new generation which sees religious truth as something that must change with the world, and an establishment which sees it as fixed and immutable.

In the character of young Father Maitland, scholar and humanitarian, many readers will recognize a lost hero of our time. Others, perhaps, will see only an arrogant intellectual, and something of a heretic. But almost everyone will identify with one side or the other of the conflict into which Father Maitland's beliefs and sympathies draw him - a conflict with his superiors which threatens to destroy him both as a priest and as a man.' (Source: dustjacket, 1968 Angus and Robertson edition)

Notes

  • Dedication: To Derek and Alison Whitelock

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Angus and Robertson ,
      1968 .
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      Extent: 240p.
      ISBN: 0207950466 (hbk)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
      :
      Viking ,
      1969 .
      image of person or book cover 5230858483811834120.jpg
      Extent: 240p.
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Harmondsworth, Middlesex,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Penguin ,
      1969 .
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      Extent: 258p.
      Reprinted: 1970 , 1984
      ISBN: 0140030999
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Belmont Books ,
      1972 .
      Extent: 272p.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Fontana , 1979 .
      image of person or book cover 8423220684259942218.jpg
      Extent: 240p.
      ISBN: 0006153798
    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Vintage Australia , 2008 .
      person or book cover
      By Permission of Random House Australia
      Extent: 275p.
      ISBN: 9781741667608
      Series: y separately published work icon Australian Vintage Classics North Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2008- Z1484482 2008 series - publisher
Alternative title: Ik Blijf : het relaas van een priester die toch bleef
Language: Dutch
    • De Bilt,
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      Netherlands,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Fontein ,
      1970 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 237p.

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