Establishment: Some Theological Considerations. (September 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Establishment: Some Theological Considerations. (September 2019)
- Main Title:
- Establishment: Some Theological Considerations
- Authors:
- Brown, Malcolm
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Liberal modernity and its associated individualism have created conditions in which a case for an established Church appears to contradict all the principles of social diversity. But the characteristic mechanisms of liberal modernity for managing difference – the ballot and the market – have proved inadequate to prevent social divisions from deepening, as the national argument about Brexit demonstrates. Despite the Church of England's lack of a confident narrative of establishment and the tendency to evaluate establishment on pragmatic grounds, this article proposes that a robust theological defence of establishment can be made in terms of both Anglican ecclesiology and a theology of power and authority in which the highest sources of authority are those with the least power. Whether the Church of England is able to regain confidence in such a theology of establishment and rise to the challenge of generating a unifying national narrative of identity post-Brexit, is left as an open question.
- Is Part Of:
- Ecclesiastical law journal. Volume 21:Number 3(2019)
- Journal:
- Ecclesiastical law journal
- Issue:
- Volume 21:Number 3(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 21, Issue 3 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0021-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 329
- Page End:
- 341
- Publication Date:
- 2019-09
- Subjects:
- establishment, -- liberal modernity, -- theology of place, -- theology of power, -- authority, -- Brexit
Ecclesiastical law -- Great Britain -- Periodicals
262.0342 - Journal URLs:
- http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=ELJ ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0956618X19000668 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0956-618X
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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