Britains First Worker Priests
Publisher: SCM Press; Scm Pr
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780334027980
Subjects: Christian spiritual & Church leaders; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Christianity - Anglican; Religion
Description: "In the early 1950s and 1960s, a handful of British Anglican priests, their wives and one or two laity, went out to work in factory and mine in the context of post-war austerity and would remain there up to and beyond the technological revolution of the 1960s. A few survived the 1980s and 1990s, retiring in the working-class districts where they had begun." "These 'worker-priests' have sometimes been thought of as the precursors of non-stipendiary ministers, but there is some doubt about that. In practice the first worker-priests had more in common with their famous Catholic counterparts in France." "This book tells their story."--BOOK JACKET.