A Church Militant

Anglicans and the Armed Forces from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War

Michael Snape (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

512 Seiten

2022
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-284832-1 (ISBN)

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This is a study of the relationship between Anglicans and the armed forces, of the military heritage and history of Anglican Communion, and the changing nature of this relationship between the mid-Victorian period and the 1970s (spanning imperial expansion, colonial conflict, both World Wars, the Cold War, wars of decolonisation, and Vietnam).

This is a study of the relationship between Anglicans and the armed forces, of the military heritage and history of the Anglican Communion, and the changing nature of this relationship between the mid-Victorian period and the 1970s. This era spanned a period of imperial expansion and colonial conflict round the turn of the twentieth century, the two World Wars, the Cold War, wars of decolonisation, and Vietnam. In terms of armed conflict, it was the bloodiest period in the history of humanity and marked the advent of weaponry that had the capacity to extinguish human civilization. This book assesses the contribution of an expansive Anglican Communion to the armed forces of the English-speaking world, examines the ways in which this has been remembered, and explores its challenging legacy for the twenty-first century Church of England.

Michael Snape was appointed Lecturer in Church History at Westhill College of Higher Education in 1994. From 1999 to 2015 he was Lecturer in Church History and then Reader in Religion, War and Society at the University of Birmingham, and is currently the inaugural Michael Ramsey Professor of Anglican Studies at Durham University. This is his sixth academic monograph and is based on his 2020 Hensley Henson Lectures at the University of Oxford.

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: 'Marching as to War': The Nineteenth-Century Inheritance
2: 'Faithful, True, and Bold': The First World War
3: ''Gainst all Disaster': The Second World War
4: 'Aflame with Faith, and Free': The Cold War
5: 'The Great Surrender Made': Remembrance and Memorialisation
Afterword
'Change and Decay'? The Church of England into the Twenty-First Century
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	29.07.2022
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 242 mm
Gewicht	916 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	0-19-284832-1 / 0192848321
ISBN-13	978-0-19-284832-1 / 9780192848321
Zustand	Neuware