Christian radicalism in the Church of England and the invention of the British Sixties, 1957-1970 : the hope of a world transformed
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Christian radicalism in the Church of England and the invention of the British Sixties, 1957-1970 : the hope of a world transformed
（Oxford historical monographs）
Oxford University Press, 2018
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-268) and index
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This study provides the first postsecular account of the moral revolution that Britain experienced in the 1960s. Beginning from the groundbreaking premise that secularity is not a mere absence, but an invented culture, it argues that a new form of British secularity achieved cultural dominance during an abrupt cultural revolution which occurred in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This moral revolution had little to do with affluence or technology, but was most
centrally a cultural response to the terrors of the Cold War, which pitted Christian Britain against the secular Soviet Union. By exploring contemporary prophecies of the inevitable arrival of 'the secular society', Sam Brewitt-Taylor shows that, ironically, British secularity was given decisive initial
momentum by theologically radical Christians, who destigmatized the idea of 'modern secularity' and made it available for appropriation by a wide range of Sixties actors. Further than this, radical Christians played a significant contributory role in deciding what kind of secularity Britain's Sixties would adopt, by narrating Britain's moral revolution as globalist, individualist, anti-authoritarian, sexually libertarian, and politically egalitarian. In all these ways, radical Christians played
a highly significant role in the early stages of Britain's Sixties.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Christian radicalism and the invented revolutions of the 1960s
1: World crisis and the making of Christian radicalism, c.1938-1957
2: Christian radicalism and the enactment of secular theology
3: Christian radicalism and the hope of Christian unity
4: Christian radicalism and the hope of transcending 'religion'
5: Christian radicalism and the hope of escaping human authority
6: Christian radicalism and the hope of a revolution of love
7: Christian radicalism and the hope of revolutionary social justice
Conclusion: Crisis, eschatology, and the re-invention of British modernity
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