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Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England - Liberal Anglican Theories of the State Between the Wars (Hardcover, New)
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Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England - Liberal Anglican Theories of the State Between the Wars (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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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 1927-8 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.
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