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Shellshocked Prophets - Former Anglican Army Chaplains in Inter-War Britain (Hardcover)
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Shellshocked Prophets - Former Anglican Army Chaplains in Inter-War Britain (Hardcover)
Series: Wolverhampton Military Studies
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The Anglican chaplains who served in the Great War were changed by
their experience of total war. They returned determined to
revitalise the Anglican Church in Britain and to create a society
which would be a living memorial to the men who had died. The
chaplains who served in the army returned to a wide variety of
church posts, bringing with them their experiences and
expectations. They were to serve as parish priests, in cathedral
chapters, teaching in schools and universities, as chaplains in
prisons and hospitals and as full time workers for national
institutions such as Toc H and the Industrial Christian Fellowship.
A substantial number were destined to achieve positions of
significant influence as bishops, deans, chaplains to the King and
to be instrumental in matters concerning the influence of the
church in industrial and political issues. These chaplains will be
shown to have had an influence on Prayer Book revision,
developments in theological thinking, moves towards church unity as
well as having an important part to play in the resolving of
industrial tension. Changes in society such as new divorce laws,
the acceptance of contraception, and the responsible use of new
media were aspects of the inter-war years which former chaplains
were to involve themselves in. They were also influential in
shaping attitudes to rituals of remembrance in the 1920s and
attitudes to pacifism in the 1930s. Given the changes that occurred
in the Church of England, institutionally, liturgically and in its
attitudes to a rapidly changing society, it is important that the
role of former chaplains should be examined and their significance
analysed. This book argues that in the inter-war years the impact
of former chaplains was enhanced by their experiences in an
unprecedented global conflict, which gave their actions and
opinions more moral authority than would otherwise been the case.
This question of the impact of former chaplains is considered in
the context of debates about the effect that the war had on British
society as a whole and on the Church of England In particular. The
inter-war years have been described as"the long peace". As the
former chaplains were coming to terms with the way in which the
Great War had affected their lives and ministries the threat of the
next war loomed. In the twenty years after their wartime
chaplaincies, former chaplains had gone some way to fulfilling the
hopes and aspirations articulated on their return from the front
and could claim to have contributed greatly to both developments in
the Anglican Church and in wider society.
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