England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales The Christian Church 1900-2000
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Overview
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. Robbins emphasizes the protracted search for elusive unity, locates particular beliefs, attitudes, policies, and structures in their social and cultural contexts, and scrutinizes prominent individuals, clerical and lay. 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 the 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, more recently, a massive influx of Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and other faiths from outside Europe: developments scarcely conceivable a hundred years earlier. 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.
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- Includes historical accounts with both global and local perspectives
- Emphasizes the protracted search for elusive unity
- Provides a compelling overview of the twentieth-century for the churches of the Isles
A superb overview of the development and activity of the main bodies within the Church...Covers a vast amount of ground...Local and regional historians will find the work and indispensable framework, as well as a sure guide.
—Northern History
- Title: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales: The Christian Church 1900–2000
- Author: Keith Robbins
- Series: Oxford History of the Christian Church
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 530
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Great Britain › Church history--20th century
- ISBNs: 9780198263715, 9780199570317, 9780191544187, 0198263716, 0199570310, 0191544183
- Resource ID: LLS:NGLNDRLNDSCTLND
- Resource Type: text.monograph.church-history
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:26:36Z