Book Review– Callum Brown Death Of Christian Britain
This superbly researched and well-written treatise on the rise and fall of British Christendom sallied forth as excellent example of revisionist history. Brown argues that Christendom in Britain remained dominant until the 1960s when quite literally sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll abolished the last vestiges of the Church’s monopolistic control of the British world. In the background of his thesis, Brown paints a fascinating portrait of the surprising power and majesty of Christianity in Victorian England. The true power and beauty of Brown’s work lies just here, and often loses focus when it attempts to move beyond this world to that of modern day Britain. (more…)
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