Democratic Audit UK published an extract from Nick Spencer's new book The Evolution of the West: How Christianity has Shaped our Values:
For centuries the Church of England buttressed a sense of Christian nationhood – which was ably deployed during the second world war by Winston Churchill. Nick Spencer explains how Churchill, who lost his faith for a while, nonetheless drew on the Bible to defend ‘Christian civilisation’. Bishop Bell of Chichester, who protested at the bombing of civilian populations in Germany, lost out on the Archbishopric of Canterbury as a result...
Nick Spencer | Read the full article at democraticaudit.com
Read the introduction to The Evolution of the West, and order your copy, here.
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