Urban Problems and Policy

An Anglican Case Study

Bibliographic Data

ID19006181
AuthorsGraham Howes (corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume45
Issue1
Pages43-55
Publication date1998-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-7686 • E-ISSN: 1461-7404
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/003776898045001004
OpenAlexW1988188827
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

This article examines the response of a state church, the Church of England, to contemporary urban problems—at the level of institutional adaptation, its own theological critique and its identity-and the secular consequences of this response. The Archbishop's Commission on Urban Priority Areas is an exemplary case. The article examines its origins and developments and finally its report Faith in the City and its secular and religious consequences. As a religious response to urban problems, the report was adversely received in the political field, though it become incorporated into public and secular discourse. The study reveals three forms of institutional self-legitimation: authenticity, continuity and exclusivity, as well as an antithesis between two forms of social ethics, the one modern and the other traditional. The author suggests that the close relationship between the church and the state does not necessarily deny a national church a prophetic role in contemporary urban society

Aesthetics · Antithesis · Epistemology · Faith · Identity (music) · Legitimation · Political science · Politics · Secular state · Secularity · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of religion · State (computer science) · Theology · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

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