Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England Liberal Anglicanism Theories of the State between the Wars

by Grimley, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9780199270897
• ISBN10: 0199270899
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-19
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This book offers a new evaluation of the political role of the Church of England in inter-war Britain. It argues that, at a time of crises such as the General Strike of 1926, the Prayer Book controversy of 1929, the Abdication Crisis of 1936 and the rise of Hitler, religion remained central to political thought and debate. Anglican thinkers like Archbishop William Temple offered a theory and rhetoric of Christian community which had a wide appeal as an antidote to class consciousness and Nazism, and that Anglicanism played a central role in the articulation of inter-war ideas of Englishness.

Author Biography

Matthew Grimley is Lecturer in History, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Liberal Anglican Theories of the State

Groups versus Community: The Pluralists

Class versus Community: The General Strike

Church versus State: The Prayer Book Crisis

Church, King and Country: The 1930s

Epilogue: The Second World War and After

Conclusion: Cultural Defence and Civil Religion

Biographical

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

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