The British Churches and the 2015 General Election
The article develops three categories to analyse the contributions of the United Kingdom (UK) churches to the 2015 General Election campaign. These are the prophetic type, the church constituency type and the local resource type. The strengths and weaknesses of each type are examined. The problem of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2016]
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Practical theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 115-126 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBF British Isles |
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Bishop's Pastoral Letter
B 2015 General Election B Public Theology B Black Church Political Mobilization B public theology types |
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| Summary: | The article develops three categories to analyse the contributions of the United Kingdom (UK) churches to the 2015 General Election campaign. These are the prophetic type, the church constituency type and the local resource type. The strengths and weaknesses of each type are examined. The problem of agency in the prophetic type is explored in relation to the Church of England Bishops' Pastoral Letter. The difficulty of identifying or forming a coherent ecclesial political group is examined in relation to the Church constituency type. The local resource type is critiqued for its implicit political bias, something unacknowledged in the documents. It is argued that the local resource type is perhaps the most mundane of the churches' contributions but nevertheless likely to be the most effective. |
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| ISSN: | 1756-0748 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2016.1147684 |