Church and State in 21st Century Britain: The Future of Church Establishment

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Tables......Page 9
Preface......Page 10
N......Page 12
W......Page 13
Contributors......Page 14
1 Introduction: Mapping the Issues......Page 16
The scheme of the book......Page 20
Part I: Establishment in Great Britain now......Page 30
Then and now......Page 32
The course of change......Page 34
From religious toleration to religious freedom......Page 35
Institutional balance – the case of education......Page 37
Institutional intervention......Page 42
Institutional separation......Page 43
Monarchy......Page 49
Legislature......Page 55
Executive......Page 62
Judiciary......Page 72
ANNEX: Howick and van Straubenzee Committees......Page 74
Direct funding......Page 76
Historic subventions in England......Page 79
Current sources of state funding......Page 82
Church buildings......Page 83
Indirect funding......Page 85
Conclusions......Page 90
Background......Page 91
Position of the Crown......Page 92
Secessions and reunions......Page 93
Implications for Church and state in England......Page 97
The Church of Scotland and \'establishment\'......Page 98
Articles Declaratory of the Constitution of the Church of Scotland......Page 102
Introduction......Page 106
The Percy case and its aftermath......Page 108
Aston Cantlow and Percy: changing status by degrees?......Page 115
Conclusion......Page 120
Part II: Disestablishments......Page 124
What establishment meant in Ireland and Wales......Page 126
Ireland......Page 127
Wales......Page 132
The two disestablishments in perspective......Page 140
Lutheranism and the \'folk-church\'......Page 142
The individual churches......Page 145
The governance of the Church......Page 149
Conclusion: different but the same?......Page 162
Part III: Policy Analysis......Page 166
10 The Condition of Modern Belief......Page 168
Religious observance......Page 169
Explaining the changes......Page 177
How irreversible?......Page 184
Implications for church/state relations......Page 186
Ancient disestablishmentarianism......Page 188
Modern Anglican disestablishmentarianism......Page 189
Disestablishmentarianism elsewhere......Page 191
Parliament and establishment......Page 193
Establishmentarianism......Page 196
Part IV: Establishment Futures......Page 206
Disestablishment......Page 208
Conclusion......Page 226
Religion and the legislature – general......Page 227
The Church of England bishops......Page 233
Ecclesiastical law and courts......Page 241
Repeal of the Enabling Act 1919......Page 243
Chaplaincies......Page 244
Re-establishment......Page 245
Viewing the options – the statesman......Page 249
Viewing the options – the Church of England......Page 251
Conclusion......Page 252
Notes......Page 257
Bibliography......Page 262
C......Page 273
G......Page 274
R......Page 275
W......Page 276