England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales - The Christian Church 1900-2000

Zusatztext lively and engaging ... a worthy addition to the serires of which it is a part. Those who teach religion or the Church in history at university, college, or seminary will find it indispensible. Klappentext This is a lovely and accessible examination of all branches of the Christian Church in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales in the twentieth century in their central interaction with politics, social issues, war, and culture. It considers their pursuit of an elusive unity throughout a century when prevailing cultural attitudes underwent massive change. Zusammenfassung Keith Robbins, building on his previous writing on the modern history of the interlocking but distinctive territories of the British Isles, takes a wide-ranging, innovative and challenging look at the twentieth-century history of the main bodies, at once national and universal, which have collectively constituted the Christian Church. The protracted search for elusive unity is emphasized. Particular beliefs, attitudes, policies and structures are located in their social and cultural contexts. Prominent individuals, clerical and lay, are scrutinized. Religion and politics intermingle, highlighting, for churches and states, fundamental questions of identity and allegiance, of public and private values, in a century of ideological conflict, violent confrontation (in Ireland), two world wars and protracted Cold War.The massive change experienced by the countries and people of the Isles since 1900 has encompassed shifting relationships between England, Ireland (and Northern Ireland), Scotland, and Wales, the end of the British Empire, the emergence of a new Europe and, latterly, major immigration of adherents of Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, and other faiths from outside Europe: developments scarcely conceivable at the outset. Such a broad contextual perspective provides an essential background to understanding the puzzling ambiguities evident both in secularization and enduring Christian faith. Robbins provides a cogent and compelling overview of this turbulent century for the churches of the Isles....

Product details

• Authors: Keith Robbins, Keith (Emeritus Vice-Chancellor Robbins, Robbins Keith
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2008
• EAN: 9780198263715
• ISBN: 978-0-19-826371-5
• No. of pages: 530
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Oxford History of the Christian Church; Oxford History of the Christia; Oxford History of the Christian Church; Oxford History of the Christia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; England, Wales, European History, 20th Century, Scotland, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Christianity, Ireland, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Wales, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Religion, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Church history