Radical Churchman

ISBN-13: 9780198269779 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 376 str.

Graham Neville

Opis

Historians of the Christian Social movement in the Church of England during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have paid little attention to its relation to the Liberal Party. But from about 1886 to 1918 there were some socially concerned churchmen who firmly supported the Liberal Party in its new role as an agency of social reform and tried to exercise influence as a group, taking Henry Scott Holland as leader and inspirer. Edward Lee Hicks, who succeeded Edward King as bishop of Lincoln in 1910, was a distinctive churchman associated with this group. He was an outstanding classical scholar who combined a long pastoral experience with active support of movements for temperance reform, improved housing, women's education and enfranchisement, and international peace. This study shows how he developed these social concerns under the influence of such friends as John Ruskin and C. P. Scott, and how he was drawn from his radical liberalism to the support of the incipient Labour Party without becoming a theoretical socialist.

Edward Hicks was called a pro-Boer, a feminist, and three parts a pacifist. Asquith chose him for the bishopric of Lincoln after a long ministry in the slums of Salford, and he stood out among the bishops of his time for his radical opinions. He supported the New Liberalism of the turn of the century, and was one of the few church leaders who welcomed the rise of the Labour Party.

Recenzje

We are in Graham Neville's debt for his labour of love ... Iadical Churchman will be of interest to the historian of the Edwardian and Great War period ... this significant book is to be warmly welcomed.

O autorze

Graham Neville is a retired Anglican priest