Priests and politics
Subtitle: the church speaks out
By: Trevor Beeson
Publisher: SCM Press; Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780334046578
Subjects: Church and social problems; History
Description: Priests, Prelates and Politics offers the general reader an account of how the Church of England responded to the most important social and political issues of the twentieth century. After an introductory chapter outlining the Christian foundations of social and political action, the author rebuffs robustly the frequently made assertion that the church should not intervene in these issues but concentrate exclusively on the salvation of individual souls. Following the pattern of his previous books, he then offers brief lives of the churchs chief spokesmen on particular subjects, together with the contributions of others, vivid accounts of the public controversies these usually created and assessments of their influence on attitudes and events. The book concludes with reflections on the likelihood of the church gaining as much attention during the present century and how its influence may best be exerted in a still turbulent and increasingly secularised nation. -- Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-211) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface -- (starting p. vii) -- 1.; title: Throne and Altar -- (starting p. 1) -- 2.; title: Towards Democracy -- Slowly -- (starting p. 12) -- 3.; title: Socialism with a Christian Soul -- (starting p. 23) -- 4.; title: The Rise and Fall of Religious Education -- (starting p. 36) -- 5.; title: The Durham Miners and their Bishops -- (starting p. 45) -- 6.; title: Greater and Lesser Prophets -- (starting p. 60) -- 7.; title: John Bull's Other Island -- Irish Crises -- (starting p. 70) -- 8.; title: The War that Did Not End Wars: 1914-18 -- (starting p. 80) -- 9.; title: Living and Talking in Hope -- Three Conferences -- (starting p. 91) -- 10.; title: Responding to the Dictators - -- (starting p. 98) -- 11.; title: The Catastrophic War: 1939-45 -- (starting p. 107) -- 12.; title: Founding the Welfare State -- (starting p. 114) -- 13.; title: The Cold War -- (starting p. 125) -- 14.; title: The Church and the Bomb -- (starting p. 135) -- 15.; title: Racism and Injustice in South Africa -- (starting p. 146) -- 16.; title: A New Morality -- (starting p. 162) -- 17.; title: Into the Heart of Industry -- (starting p. 177) -- 18.; title: A Sorry Tale of Too Many Cities -- (starting p. 188) -- 19.; title: Whither Prophecy? -- (starting p. 199); title: Further Reading -- (starting p. 210); title: Index-- (starting p. 213)