The established church past, present and future
The deeper issue addressed by the many historians gathered at this conference concerns the creation and continuance of the Church of England as an established, national, state church in a liberal, humanist, multicultural and secular world. This volume makes a powerful case from a Christian perspecti...
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T & T Clark
2011
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| Schriftenreihe: | Affirming catholicism series
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The deeper issue addressed by the many historians gathered at this conference concerns the creation and continuance of the Church of England as an established, national, state church in a liberal, humanist, multicultural and secular world. This volume makes a powerful case from a Christian perspective for the continued establishment of the Church of England, though it compels both church and state to confront issues each would rather ignore. Three central issues dominate the discussion: the monarchy and the role of the monarch as Defender of the Faith; implications for the churches of the reform of the House of Lords; and gender- and sexual-equality and the question of the consecration of female and gay priests to the episcopate. It asks a number of penetrating questions, including the key issue of the extent to which churches, and particularly the Church of England, can be protected from equality legislation, while at the same time expecting to have special political and social privileges |
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| Beschreibung: | Papers from a one day conference Includes bibliographical references and index Why the 'establishment' of the Church of England is good for a liberal society / Nigel Biggar -- Opportunity knocks : church, nationhood and establishment / Martyn Percy -- The dog that didn't bark : the failure of disestablishment since 1927 / Matthew Grimley -- 'A free church in a free state' : Anglo-Catholicism and establishment / Mark D. Chapman -- Gospel opportunity or unbiblical relic? : the established Church through Anglican evangelical eyes / Andrew Atherstone -- Gender and establishment : Parliament, 'Erastianism' and the ordination of women 1993-2010 / Judith Maltby -- The establishment, multiculturalism and social cohesion / Elaine Graham -- A uniform British establishment / Iain McLean, Scot Peterson -- Methodism and establishment / David Carter -- Anglican establishment, Roman Catholics and receptive ecumenism / Philip Endean -- What future for establishment? / William Whyte |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 200 S. 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780567358097 978-0-567-35809-7 0567358097 0-567-35809-7 |