| Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England Contributor(s): Scruton, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 1848871996 ISBN-13: 9781848871991 Publisher: Atlantic Books (UK) OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Christian Church - General - Religion | Christianity - Anglican |
| Dewey: 270 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.45 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church as its true spiritual guardian. Here, Scruton argues that the Anglican Church is the forlorn trustee of an architectural and artistic inheritance that remains one of the treasures of European civilization. He contends that it is a still point in the centre of English culture and that its defining texts, the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer are the sources from which much of our national identity derives. At once an elegy to a vanishing world and a clarion call to recognize Anglicanism's continuing relevance, "Our Church" is a graceful and persuasive book. |