Christianity and nationhood: Congruity or antipathy?

Journal of Religious History

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 247-260

  Hastings, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34247728675     PISSN: 00224227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.00133     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (25)

1. 3 June 1881. Herbert Paul, ed., Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, 2nd ed. (London: Macmillan, 1913), 83.
2. M. Staniforth, trans., Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers (London: Penguin, 1968), 177.
3. "Wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church," Letter of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans. 8, 2.
4. J. Stevenson, A New Eusebius: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church to AD 337 (London: SPCK, 1987), 15.
5. Staniforth, 176-7.
6. Contra Epistolam Parmeniani (AD 400), 3.4.34, Migne, Patrologia Latina, 43.
7. For the argument in the paragraph and much else, see Adrian Hastings, The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
8. The full Latin text of the Instructions is in H. Chappoulie, Rome et les Missions d'Indochine au XVII siècle, vol. I (Paris: Boud et Gay, 1943), 392-402.
9. See the commentary in Joseph Metzler, "Orientation, programme et premières decision (1622-1649)," in Joseph Metzler, ed., Sacrae Congregatione de Propaganda Fide Memoria Rerum vol. I (Rome: Herder, 1971), 146-196.
10. Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More (London: Chatto & Windus, 1998), 386.
11. Eberhard Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (London: Collins, 1970), 648;
12. W. A. Visser't Hooft, Memoirs (London: SCM, 1973, 153.
13. William Temple, Church and Nation (London: Macmillan, 1915).
14. Roland Hill, Lord Acton (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 415.
15. Staniforth, 176.
16. John Pollard, The Unknown Pope: Benedict XV (1914-1922) and the Pursuit of Peace (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1999).
17. E. Jaeschke, Bruno Gutmann, his Life, his Thoughts, his Work: An Early Attempt at a Theology in an African Context (Erlangen: Verlag der Ev.Luth. Mission, 1985);
18. Timothy Yates, Christian Mission in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, chap. 2. "Mission as the Church of a People (Volkskirche) 1910-1920."
19. Klaus Scholder, The Churches and the Third Reich, vol. I, 1918-1934 (London: SCM, 1987), especially chaps 7 and 11.
20. Scholder, 420. For the wider scene see Werner Ustorf, Sailing on the Next Tide: Missions, Missiology and the Third Reich (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2000).
21. Scholder, 427.
22. The Churches Survey Their Task, The Report of the Conference at Oxford, July 1937, on Church, Community and State (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1937), 224-8.
23. The Churches Survey Their Task, 229.
24. World Council of Churches, The Amsterdam Assembly Series IV. The Church and the International Disorder (London: SCM, 1948), 225.
25. Staniforth, 177.