The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England by Martyn Percy
English | April 1st, 2025 | ISBN: 1911723588 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 2.17 MB
English | April 1st, 2025 | ISBN: 1911723588 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 2.17 MB
This book offers a fresh, bold and unsettling truth: the British Empire and Great Britain are primarily English constructions; and the Church of England has presumed to act for and benefit from English enterprise and exploitation, serving as the spiritual arm of the imperial project. English Anglicanism has developed itself as the lead character within its own 'serious fiction'—the main religious player in a drama of Church and Empire. Yet, in collusion with colonialism, it is now a prisoner of its own historical amnesia.