Abstract: Anglicans around the world live in very different political situations. Political engagement for Christians and the institutional church in Japan or Palestine or the Sudan means something very different from political engagement in New Zealand or Canada. How can Christians think they have a natural and accepted place in the world of politics in nations where another religion is either the religion of the state or is the majority and controlling religion in the society? How can a Christian in a committedly secular state sustain an engagement with that secularity in terms of their own religious faith? For the greater part of their history Anglicans have lived in a Christian country where such questions have not arisen and indeed could hardly have been formulated. It was just the most natural thing that the Christian ruler should have had the counsel of church leaders and that they should have exercised some power in the ordering of a Christian society.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-07-14
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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