Thatcherism and the New Right have created a moral climate in which a large percentage of the population feels gleefully right about its acquisitive individualism. Will the Church retreat from the political fray and muffle it prophetic voice? This book provides and answer to that question. It is a compelling report on what the Church of England said and did on issues of economic justice during the Thatcher era, and tells of the dramatic clash between the government and an established Church which until recently was often referred to as 'the Tory Party at prayer'.