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Priests and Politics - The Church Speaks Out (Paperback, New)
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Priests and Politics - The Church Speaks Out (Paperback, New)
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Since Christianity is an ethical as well as a mystical religion and
since individuals live in communities, the church is bound to be
involved in politics and other social action that determines the
quality of human life. So argues Trevor Beeson in this study of how
the Church of England's leaders responded to the radical social
changes that transformed life in Britain during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Their response was never prompt and rarely
enthusiastic,and all too often the bishops resisted change in
society as well as in the church. Nonetheless there were always a
few prophets who recognised the need for reform and sometimes led
the way to its realisation. Trevor Beeson traces the course of a
fascinating period of history, starting from the time when church
and state were bonded in an all-embracing unity, then moving
through turbulent and and sometimes violent times in which the
church struggled to discover a new vocation. Trevor Beeson analyses
18 key issues of the period in his usual robust style together with
pen-portraits of the leading figures involved.. He ends with a
critical evalualtion of the performances of some recent church
leaders and outlines what he believes to be the appropriate basis
for the intervention of bishops and other clergy in an increasingly
secularised society that no longer recognises their authority. The
duty to make pronouncements of Christian principle remains but
these must normally point decision-makers in constructive
directions rather than offering directives for the solutions of
complex social and economic problems.
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