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Dissent or Conform: War, Peace and the English Churches 1900-1945

Dissent or Conform: War, Peace and the English Churches 1900-1945


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Dissent or Conform examines how churches reacted to, and were affected by, the two world wars. Its underlying theme, however, is how the Church can be a creatively dissenting community, focusing on how easily the church can turn into a conforming community that only encourages the occurrence of uncreative dissenters, the ones who criticize the power without offering solutions and leading to a real change. Wilkinson opposes this trait of the church, especially given the impact that it has on society as a messenger of the gospel. To this end, the author depicts religious groups during three periods of time: English Nonconformity among the free churches before WWI, pacifists and pacifiers between the two wars and Christianity during WWII, focusing on how church history interacts with the developments in history and society. This book is of particular interest to social and church historians of the 20th century, and to all interested in the history and ethics of war and pacifism. It will also appeal to those attracted by the interaction between church and society.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Robert Runcie, former Archbishop of Canterbury ix: Preface xi; Acknowledgements xvi; PART I:THE FREE CHURCHES AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR; 1 THE DILEMMAS OF DISSENT 3 - Nonconformist culture - Nonconformist conscience; 2 DISSENT AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR 21 - The outbreak of war - Primitive Methodism and the war - Free Church chaplains - Free Church patriotism - Free Church pacifism; 3 THE ASSIMILATION OF DISSENT 54 Free Church decline - Sabbatarianism and Teetotalism - The chapels and education - The new leisure - Nonconformity and ecumenism - Class and religion - Cultural assimilation; PART II: PACIFISM AND PACIFIERS BETWEEN THE WARS; 4 NEVER AGAIN!85 - Hopes for a new world - Pacifism and pacifiers; 5 CHRISTIAN PACIFISM

About the Author :
Canon Alan Wilkinson is Honorary Priest at the Portsmouth Cathedral and the author of The Church of England and the First World War (SPCK 1978). He has been a Priest-in-Charge of three parishes in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, and Director of Training in the Diocese of Ripon.

Review :
'It is rare to find a book so historically informative and yet as immediately relevant as this.' The Baptist Times 'It is notoriously difficult for today's historians to write about war and their own century without bias, haste, or nostalgia. Yet Alan Wilkinson has managed admirably to do so [ - ] It will encourage readers to move away from the encapsulated and often idealized world of 'church history' to the study of 'the church in history.' Robert Runcie, former Archbishop of Canterbury


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780718892074
  • Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Lutterworth Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 380
  • Weight: 486 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0718892070
  • Publisher Date: 25 Feb 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: War, Peace and the English Churches 1900-1945
  • Width: 140 mm


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