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    Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England

    By Roger Scruton

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    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.

    In Our Church, 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtlantic Books
    Release dateMay 1, 2014
    ISBN9781782395041
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    Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England
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    Roger Scruton

    Sir Roger Scruton is widely seen as one of the greatest conservative thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and a polymath who wrote a wide array of fiction, non-fiction and reviews. He was the author of over fifty books. A graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, Scruton was Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London; University Professor at Boston University, and a visiting professor at Oxford University. He was one of the founders of the Salisbury Review, contributed regularly to The Spectator, The Times and the Daily Telegraph and was for many years wine critic for the New Statesman. Sir Roger Scruton died in January 2020.

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      Very readable, though occasionally lapsing into church jargon, a very personal perspective on the significance to England and the English of the church of england today, resulting from and through its contributions to the country's history. A successful critique of recent and present-day to 'lose' the Book of Common Prayer and why this is a big mistake. Every serving CofE priest should read, mark and inwardly digest!