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The Power and the Glory
novel by Graham Greene
For other uses, see The Power and the Glory (disambiguation).
First edition | |
| Author | Graham Greene |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Heinemann |
Publication date | |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media&#;type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
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The Power and the Glory is a novel by British author Graham Greene.
The title is an allusion to the doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen." It was initially published in the United States under the title The Labyrinthine Ways.
Greene's novel tells the story of a renegade Catholic 'whisky priest' (a term coined by Greene) living in the Mexican state of Tabasco in the s, a time when the Mexican government was attempting to suppress the Catholic Church.
That suppression had resulted in the Cristero War (–), so named for its Catholic combatants' slogan "Viva Cri
