Father Ed Dowling: Bill Wilson's Sponsor

by Glenn F. Chesnut

Book Overview

The story of Father Ed Dowling, S.J., the Jesuit priest who served for twenty years as sponsor and spiritual guide to Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. An icy evening in December 1940 saw the first meeting of two extraordinary spiritual leaders. Father Ed said that the graces he received from meeting Bill Wilson were as great as those he had received from his ordination as a priest, and Bill in turn described encountering the Jesuit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1491770856
• ISBN13: 9781491770856
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 650 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"