Christianity and politics : the drummond lectures 1989

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Christianity and politics : the drummond lectures 1989

Hugh Montefiore

Macmillan, 1990

  • pbk

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Volume

ISBN 9780333517741

Description

These are the 1989 Drummond lectures given at Stirling University by the former Chairman of the Church of England's Board for Social Responsibility. Hugh Montefiore also wrote "Can Man Survive?", "Communications the Gospel in a Scientific Age" and "So Near and Yet so Far".

Table of Contents

  • Church and state
  • theology and politics
  • the theology of party politics
  • the church and environmental politics
  • church and politics today. Appendices: Margaret Thatcher and the General Assembly
  • the archbishop and the Falklands service
  • the Bishop of Birmingham's Synod address
  • political motions passed by General Synod
  • political motions passed by General Assembly.
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pbk ISBN 9780333523919

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The churches nowadays are frequently alleged to be betraying their mission through political involvement. These Drummond Lectures (given at Stirling University in 1989) enquire into these charges against the Church of England and her sister church, the Church of Scotland. Relations between church and state are examined and the theological basis of political involvement is analysed. The programmes of British political parties are subjected to a theological critique and a special chapter is devoted to the environment. In 1970 Hugh Montefiore became Suffragan Bishop of Kingston, and he spent nine years as Bishop of Birmingham, before his retirement in 1987. He served on the Church's Doctrine Commission, and was Chairman of its Board for Social Responsibility. He has written many books, and has been active in environmental matters; the chairmanship of Transport 2000 is one of his retirement activities. He is an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and an Hon. D.D. of Aberdeen and Birmingham.

Table of Contents

  • Church and state
  • theology and politics
  • the theology of party politics
  • the church and environmental politics
  • church and politics today. Appendices: Margaret Thatcher and the General Assembly
  • the archbishop and the Falklands service
  • the Bishop of Birmingham's Synod address
  • political motions passed by General Synod
  • political motions passed by General Assembly.

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