Archbishop William Temple and Public Theology in a Post-Christian Context

Journal of Anglican Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 239-251

  Dackson, Wendy ^a  

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Author keywords

Anglicanism; Archbishop of Canterbury; middle axioms; public theology; William Temple

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008555919     PISSN: 17403553     EISSN: 17455278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740355306070686     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Ronald Preston, ‘William Temple: The Man and his Impact on Church and Society’, in Ronald Preston, Malcom Brown, Rachel Jenkins and Tony Addy (eds.), Archbishop William Temple: Issues in Church and Society 50 Years On (Manchester: The William Temple Foundation, 1994), pp. 4-16 (4).
2. Alan Suggate, ‘Preface’, in Wendy Dackson, The Ecclesiology of Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944) (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004), pp. i-iii (i).
3. John Atherton, Public Theology for Changing Times (London: SPCK, 2000), p. 79.
4. Preston, ‘William Temple’, p. 4. I do not think Preston is entirely off-base in his appropriation of Temple. His continuation of Temple's ethical and ecumenical concerns is very much in line with Temple's. I do, however, hold that he has not adequately assessed Temple's deeper theological foundations, and thus does not create an adequate ecclesiology from which to address those concerns. See Dackson, ‘But Was it Meant to Be a Joke Legacy? Ronald Preston as Heir to William Temple’, Studies in Christian Ethics 17.2 (2004), pp. 148-61, in which I explain further how Ronald Preston both was, and was not, Temple's theological successor.
5. Suggate, ‘Preface’, p. i.
6. Edward Norman, Secularisation (London: Continuum, 2000), pp. viii-ix.
7. See Daphne Hampson, After Christianity (London: SCM Press, 1996).
8. Norman, Secularisation, p. ix.
9. John Atherton, Marginalization (London: SCM Press, 2003), p. 31. Atherton gives an excellent description of the declining influence of the church in contemporary British society (although the concepts are apt in other contexts, such as North America), and ways in which the church might work with both secular groups and other faiths to retain a corporate vitality. Space does not permit detailing his arguments here, but I highly recommend his book.
10. Atherton, Marginalization, p. 33. I would venture that my own generation, born in the ‘baby boom’ years, is the first generation for whom it was socially acceptable not to profess at least nominal religious affiliation, and for whom it was common to be raised without some minimal level of religious activity.
11. Atherton, Marginalization, p. 1.
12. Duncan Forrester, ‘The Scope of Public Theology’, Studies in Christian Ethics 17.2 (August 2004), pp. 5-19.
13. Forrester, ‘Scope of Public Theology’; and John Atherton, ‘Marginalisation, Manchester, and the Scope of Public Theology’, Studies in Christian Ethics 17.2 (August 2004), pp. 20-30.
14. Forrester, ‘Scope of Public Theology’, p. 18.
15. Forrester, ‘Scope of Public Theology’, p. 19.
16. F.A. Iremonger, William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury: His Life and Letters (London: Oxford University Press, 1948), pp. 108-11.
17. William Temple was the first son of an Archbishop of Canterbury to become Archbishop of Canterbury.
18. Iremonger, William Temple, p. 105.
19. Iremonger, William Temple, pp. 98-102.
20. Iremonger, William Temple, p. 474.
21. Preston, ‘William Temple’, p. 4.
22. Preston, ‘William Temple’, p. 5.
23. Alan M. Suggate, William Temple and Christian Social Ethics Today (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1987), p. 149.
24. William F. Storrar, ‘Scottish Civil Society and Devolution: The New Case for Ronald Preston's Defence of Middle Axioms’, Studies in Christian Ethics 17.2 (August 2004), pp. 37-46.
25. Storrar, ‘Scottish Civil Society’.
26. William Temple, Christianity and Social Order (London: SCM Press, 1942), pp. 62-66.
27. Temple, Christianity and Social Order, pp. 67-77.
28. See Dackson, Ecclesiology of Archbishop William Temple. Also Dackson, ‘But Was it Meant to Be a Joke Legacy?’
29. Charles Gore is most likely the influence on Temple's primary ecclesiological metaphor. See his The Holy Spirit and the Church (London: John Murray, 1924), pp. 26, 111, 147.
30. Dackson, Ecclesiology of Archbishop William Temple, pp. 74-75.
31. Suggate, ‘Preface’, p. ii.
32. William Temple, Christus Veritas (London: Macmillan, repr., 1954 [1924]), p. 250.
33. Temple, Christus Veritas, p. 237.
34. Dackson, Ecclesiology of Archbishop William Temple, p. 115.
35. Dackson, Ecclesiology of Archbishop William Temple, p. 120.
36. William Temple, Readings in St. John's Gospel (London: Macmillan, 1952 [1939-40]), p. 100.
37. William Temple, The Church and its Teaching Today (New York: Macmillan, 1936), pp. 2-3.
38. Iremonger, William Temple, p. 172.
39. William Temple, Studies in the Spirit and Truth of Christianity (London: Macmillan, 1914), pp. 150-61.
40. Temple, Studies in the Spirit and Truth, p. 150.
41. Temple, Studies in the Spirit and Truth, p. 157.
42. Temple, Studies in the Spirit and Truth, p. 161.
43. Preston, ‘William Temple’, p. 8.
44. William Temple, Nature, Man and God (London: Macmillan, repr., 1949 [1934]).
45. Temple, Studies in the Spirit and Truth, pp. 39-40.
46. Temple, Church and its Teaching, p. 48.
47. William Temple, Church and Nation (New York: Macmillan, 1915), p. 115.
48. William Temple, The Church Looks Forward (London: Macmillan, 1944), p. 30.
49. Temple, The Church Looks Forward, p. 30.
50. Temple, Church and its Teaching, p. 34.
51. Temple, Readings in St. John's Gospel.
52. Temple, Studies in the Spirit and Truth, p. 55.
53. Temple, Church and its Teaching, p. 32.
54. Doctrine in the Church of England: The Report of the Commission on Christian Doctrine Appointed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in 1922 (Chairman's Introduction by W. Temple; London: SPCK, 1950 [1938]), p. 1.
55. Temple, Church and its Teaching, pp. 15-16.
56. Temple, Readings in St. John's Gospel, p. 14.
57. Temple, Church and Nation, p. 30.
58. William Temple, Issues of Faith (London: Macmillan, 1917), pp. 21-22.
59. Preston, ‘William Temple’, p. 14.
60. Preston, ‘William Temple’, p. 9. However, Temple's use of the term ‘Christendom’ is quite different from that of most of his critics. It was ‘precisely the world no longer alien’ (Mens Creatrix [London: Macmillan, 1961 (1917)], p. 326), and thus something which had not yet been achieved.
61. Malcolm Brown, ‘Work and Unemployment: The Church in the Moral Minefield’, in Preston et al., Archbishop William Temple, pp. 17-30.
62. Temple, Church and Nation, pp. 29-30.
63. Forrester, ‘Scope of Public Theology’, p. 19.