The Church and the Nation: Charges and Addresses (Classic Reprint)

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The first paper, on Christian Ethics, is given as a general introduction to show the way in which Dr. Creighton considered that religion must influence the moral ideals of the nation. The Peterborough addresses deal, for the most part, with voluntary schools and religious educa tion generally, and with the other pressing questions of the day, Welsh Disestablishment, and the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, Biblical Critic1sm and various social problems. The concluding papers are all mainly concerned with the great question which, to Dr. Creighton, had always been of primary importance - the position and meaning of the Church of England and its relation to the life of the nation. As years went on he felt more and more the need that this should be made clear, though it will be seen on reading the earlier papers, that his own opinions had undergone no change, and were the consistent outcome both of his historical studies and of his experience of life. Recent events only brought home to him with ever increasing force the necessity that people should understand the historical position of the Church of England.

He had always emphasised the importance of the study of Ecclesiastical History In a letter written to a pupil in 1879 he says.

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