The Impact of Church Schools on Urban Church Life

In 1902 elementary school provision in Oxford diocese – England's largest – reflected the national picture: 72 per cent were church schools, with total rolls of 54 per cent of school-age children. The bitterly contested 1902 Education Act apparently protected the future of church schools, but in practice its provisions severely undermined them, particularly in growing areas of the country. By 1929, Oxford's assistant bishop reported the schools’ situation as ‘critical’. This article examines the impact on the church schools of one rural deanery in South Buckinghamshire, between the 1902 and 1944 Education Acts. Several schools found themselves under threat of closure, while rapid population increase and a rising school leaving age more than quadrupled the number of school-age children in the area. Closer working with the local education authority and other denominations was one option to optimize scarce resources and protect the Church of England's influence on religious education in day schools: but many churchmen fought to keep church schools open at all costs. This strategy met with limited success: by 1939 the proportion of children in church schools had decreased to 10 per cent, with potential consequences for how religion was taught to the other 90 per cent of children.

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What Makes a Good City? Reflections on Urban Life and Faith

International Journal of Public Theology ◽

10.1163/156973208x256420 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 7-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Elaine Graham

Keyword(s):

Local Community ◽

Well Being ◽

Community Empowerment ◽

Urban Life ◽

Theological Method ◽

Added Value ◽

Public Theology ◽

Urban Church ◽

The Future ◽

The Impact

AbstractThis article is a case study in public theology, drawing on the author's experience as a member of the Church of England's Commission on Urban Life and Faith (CULF). Following in the footsteps of the seminal Archbishops' Commission on Urban Priority Areas (ACUPA) report, Faith in the City (1985), CULF aimed to evaluate the future of the urban church and its role in the local community, arguing that the impact of faith-based organizations constituted a major contribution to local community empowerment and well-being. CULF coined the term 'faithful capital' (after Robert Putnam's concept of 'social capital') to express the added value that people of faith contribute to their local communities, and called for wider debate around the question 'what makes a good city?' This article also scrutinizes the Commission's theological method, and in particular its attempt to model a form of 'theology from below'; and in the light of the Commission's findings, poses questions for the future of public theology.

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The Impact of Children's Work on Church Life in Hamlets and Small Villages

Journal of Christian Education ◽

10.1177/002196579203500106 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol os-35 (1) ◽

pp. 57-63 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Leslie J. Francis ◽

David W. Lankshear

Keyword(s):

Church Life ◽

Children’S Work ◽

The Impact

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Church Growth at Fuller

Missiology An International Review ◽

10.1177/009182968601400402 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 401-420

Author(s):

Arthur F. Glasser

Keyword(s):

Church Growth ◽

Theological Seminary ◽

Church Life ◽

The Sixties ◽

The Usa ◽

History Of ◽

Fuller Theological Seminary ◽

World Missions ◽

The Impact ◽

The Church

Conceding that the “church growth” concept and methodology have come under fire, the author shares an insider's reflections on how the movement has fared since Donald McGavran originated it three decades ago. The history of the movement and the relation between the Institute for Church Growth and the School of World Missions at Fuller Theological Seminary are traced. Dialogue and controversy with the WCC in the sixties, and growing influence within the Lausanne movement in the seventies, are sketched. The impact and consequences of church growth for world missions and for church life in the USA are noted. Finally, in a series of “random thoughts,” Glasser appraises both the strengths and weaknesses of the church growth concept, affirms that it is being corrected and enlarged, and claims for it an enduring place in the church's evolving missionary strategy of the eighties.

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Sacraments in Lutheranism, 1600–1800

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800 ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199937943.013.28 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 340-358

Author(s):

John Stephenson

Keyword(s):

Time Frame ◽

The Real ◽

Lutheran Church ◽

Internal Development ◽

Real Presence ◽

Church Life ◽

Definition Of ◽

The Impact ◽

Lutheran Orthodoxy

Beginning with the elasticity of the concept “sacrament,” which in Lutheran usage could accommodate more or fewer rites, this essay emphasizes how Lutheranism downplayed (while not wholly abandoning) the Augustinian “sign of a sacred thing” definition of sacrament in favor of an understanding of “means of salvation [or grace]” that emphasized certain rites as “bestowing instruments” (media dotika) of grace, particularly justification. Reformed incursions through the “Second Reformation” and the impact of Pietism caused private absolution and Eucharistic worship to move from the center to the periphery of Lutheran church life by the end of the time frame addressed here, while the internal development of Lutheran orthodoxy saw Luther’s understanding of the real presence replaced by Melanchthon’s quasi-Reformed view.

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Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Religious Clothing and Symbols in School: Exploring the Impact of Church Schools in a Religiously Diverse Society

Religion and Human Rights - Religion and Civil Human Rights in Empirical Perspective ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-59285-5_7 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 157-175 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Leslie J. Francis ◽

Andrew Village ◽

Ursula McKenna ◽

Gemma Penny

Keyword(s):

Freedom Of Religion ◽

Diverse Society ◽

Religious Clothing ◽

The Impact ◽

Church Schools

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A theological approach to mitigating the impacts of the SARS CoV-2 pandemic

St open ◽

10.48188/so.2.11 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 1-26

Author(s):

Ivica Jurić

Keyword(s):

Catholic Church ◽

Research Method ◽

Considerable Potential ◽

Spiritual Dimension ◽

The Social ◽

Church Life ◽

Life Force ◽

Tangible Support ◽

The Impact ◽

The Catholic Church

Objective:Investigate the hardships caused by the SARS CoV-2 pandemic in the social domain, and especially church life in Croatia. Additionally, the study aimed to study the guidelines for the faithful and society at large established by the Catholic Church. Further, guidelines are proposed to improve specific pastoral practices in the context of the pandemic. Methods:This paper uses the scientific research method of pastoral judgment developed by the Lateran School (Lanza, 2008;Čondić, 2013;Vranješ, 2013). Results:Following a theological and pastoral analysis of the impacts of the SARS CoV-2 pandemic, particularly in the ec- clesiastical domain, as well as a study of the guidelines is- sued by both the universal and local Church and prominent theologians, guidelines for improving the existing practice were proposed in six areas: Discovering the meaning of suf-fering (life); To reject suffering is to reject love; Where am I in the era of the SARS CoV-2 pandemic?; Liberating men from fear; Paying attention to the collocutor; and The parish com- munity is a space for everyone. Conclusion:Despite being taken by surprise by the initial outbreak of the SARS CoV-2 pandemic, the Catholic church in Croatia has considerable potential and has engaged in a wide scope of activities to mitigate the impact of the pandemic. This primarily has to do with bolstering the spiritual dimension in the faithful. Faith overcomes fear, gives meaning to suffering, and acts as a life force that may help heal the whole of society through fellowship and tangible support to those at-risk during the pandemic.

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