Christian radicalism in the Church of England and the invention of the British Sixties, 1957-1970 : the hope of a world transformed / Sam Brewitt-Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brewitt-Taylor, Sam, 1984- author.

Series:

Oxford historical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church of England--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Church of England.

Christianity and politics--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Christianity and politics.

Radicalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Radicalism.

Radicalism--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Secularism--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Secularism.

Radicals--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Radicals.

History.

Great Britain--Religion--20th century.

Great Britain.

Religion.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 272 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"This study provides a 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."--Dust jacket.

Contents:

1 World Crisis and the Making of Christian Radicalism, c. 1938-1957 p. 52

2 Christian Radicalism and the Enactment of Secular Theology p. 81

3 Christian Radicalism and the Hope of Christian Unity p. 105

4 Christian Radicalism and the Hope of Transcending 'Religion' p. 129

5 Christian Radicalism and the Hope of Escaping Human Authority p. 153

6 Christian Radicalism and the Hope of a Revolution of Love p. 178

7 Christian Radicalism and the Hope of Revolutionary Social Justice p. 202.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-268) and index.

ISBN:

0198827008

9780198827009

OCLC:

1020031308