The Woven Universe: Selected Writings Of Rev. Maori Marsden [first edition]

A very lightly read copy. Tohunga, scholar, writer, healer, minister, and philosopher. Born in Awanui. A member of the Tai Tokerau peoples of the north; of Ngai Takoto, Ahipara, and Ngati Warara descent. Maori Marsden was both an ordained Anglican minister and a graduate of the whare wananga of Te Aupouri. His writing explored pre-Christian theology, understandings of divinity and the Maori worldview, and his Christian faith and vocation. Active in various issues affecting Maori; selections of his speeches were published in 2003 through his estate as 'The Woven Universe: Selected writings of Rev. Maori Marsden'. Member of the 28th Maori Battalion (serial no. 810655). After World War II he became the first Maori chaplain in the New Zealand Navy. One of the original claimants for Ngai Takoto's claim to the Crown. Married to Jane Marsden (née Brown); seven children. Died June 1993 at 69 years.