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Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England

Liberal Anglican Theories of the State Between the Wars

by Matthew Grimley (, Lecturer In History, Royal Holloway)

  • Hardback
  • 300 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2 cm

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This book traces the influence of Anglican writers on the political thought of inter-war Britain, and argues that religion continued to exert a powerful influence on political ideas and allegiances in the 1920s and 1930s. It counters the prevailing assumption of historians that inter-war political thought was primarily secular in content, by showing how Anglicans like Archbishop William Temple made an active contribution to ideas of community and the welfare state (a term which Temple himself invented). Liberal Anglican ideas of citizenship, community and the nation continued to be central to political thought and debate in the first half of the 20th century. Grimley traces how Temple and his colleagues developed and changed their ideas on community and the state in response to events like the First World War, the General Strike and the Great Depression. For Temple, and political philosophers like A D Lindsay and Ernest Barker, the priority was to find a rhetoric of community which could unite the nation against class consciousness, poverty, and the threat of Hitler.Their idea of a Christian national community was central to the articulation of ideas of 'Englishness' in inter-war Britain, but this Anglican contribution has been almost completely overlooked in recent debate on twentieth-century national identity. Grimley also looks at rival Anglican political theories put forward by conservatives such as Bishop Hensley Henson and Ralph Inge, dean of St Paul's. Drawing extensively on Henson's private diaries, it uncovers the debates which went on within the Church at the time of the General Strike and the 1927-28 Prayer Book crisis. The book uncovers an important and neglected seam of popular political thought, and offers a new evaluation of the religious, political and cultural identity of Britain before the Second World War.
Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England and Church Of England And British Politics Since 1900
Church Of England And British Politics Since 1900Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England

  • Author

    Matthew Grimley (, Lecturer In History, Royal Holloway)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    June 2004

  • Weight

    491g

  • Page Count

    300

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199270897

  • ISBN-10

    0199270899

  • Eden Code

    1147368

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