{"id":862,"date":"2009-09-11T23:49:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T12:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=862"},"modified":"2010-07-02T01:12:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T14:12:29","slug":"%e2%80%98montgomery-of-tasmania%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-my-commendation-for-the-publisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/09\/11\/%e2%80%98montgomery-of-tasmania%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-my-commendation-for-the-publisher\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Montgomery of Tasmania&#8217;\u2013 My Commendation for the Publisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMontgomery of Tasmania: Henry and Maud Montgomery in Australasia\u201d by Robert Withycombe, <a href=\"https:\/\/acornpress.net.au\/\">Acorn Press<\/a>. Planned release is late 2009.<\/p>\n<p>If only I\u2019d had this fascinating book when I started (bishoping in Tasmania)! I couldn\u2019t put it down! \u2018Leadership\u2019 is much in vogue, if too little assessed. Here is a sustained assessment of leadership, both gifted and learnt. H. H. Montgomery was gifted with athleticism, initiative, a sense of adventure, an ease with people and a sustaining vision of God\u2019s love in Christ for the world. How would these gifts play in Colonial Tasmania? And what kind of bishop would emerge? \u2013 \u2018Bush Bishop\u2019. \u2018Mutton Bird Bishop\u2019, \u2018Citizen Bishop\u2019, \u2018Missions Bishop\u2019? Montgomery decided for the latter, the others followed. We learn of Episcopal leadership engaging Gospel and culture, in its success and failure: a truly fascinating study to enrich learning and conversation.<\/p>\n<p>The above commendation was meant to be 40 words but I became so enthusiastic that it is over 100! The book\u2019s Editor, Rena, will delete and put in lots of . . . and get the commendation down to 40! The longer version above will appear on the Acorn Press website when the biography is released towards the end of the year. How about the book launch at Montgomery\u2019s Pub in Hobart?<\/p>\n<p>H. H. Montgomery, 4th Anglican Bishop of Tasmania 1889-1901, was the father of Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery of World War 2 fame (\u2019Montgomery of Alamein\u2019) and the son of Sir Robert Montgomery who courageously faced down the 1857 Lahore mutiny in India. Quite a family, the Montgomery family.<\/p>\n<p>The biography\u2019s author is Dr Robert Withycombe, Senior Research Fellow, St Mark\u2019s National Theological Centre, Canberra. Congratulations, Robert, on your outstanding work.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your eye out for this nugget \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMontgomery of Tasmania: Henry and Maud Montgomery in Australasia\u201d by Robert Withycombe, Acorn Press. Planned release is late 2009. If only I\u2019d had this fascinating book when I started (bishoping in Tasmania)! I couldn\u2019t put it down! \u2018Leadership\u2019 is much &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/09\/11\/%e2%80%98montgomery-of-tasmania%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-my-commendation-for-the-publisher\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4569,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/4569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}