Table of Contents

Foreword by Robert Runcie, former Archbishop of Canterbury ix: Preface xi; Acknowledgements xvi; PART I:THE FREE CHURCHES AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR; 1 THE DILEMMAS OF DISSENT 3 - Nonconformist culture - Nonconformist conscience; 2 DISSENT AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR 21 - The outbreak of war - Primitive Methodism and the war - Free Church chaplains - Free Church patriotism - Free Church pacifism; 3 THE ASSIMILATION OF DISSENT 54 Free Church decline - Sabbatarianism and Teetotalism - The chapels and education - The new leisure - Nonconformity and ecumenism - Class and religion - Cultural assimilation; PART II: PACIFISM AND PACIFIERS BETWEEN THE WARS; 4 NEVER AGAIN!85 - Hopes for a new world - Pacifism and pacifiers; 5 CHRISTIAN PACIFISM

About the Author

Canon Alan Wilkinson is Honorary Priest at the Portsmouth Cathedral and the author of The Church of England and the First World War (SPCK 1978). He has been a Priest-in-Charge of three parishes in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, and Director of Training in the Diocese of Ripon.

Reviews

'It is rare to find a book so historically informative and yet as immediately relevant as this.' The Baptist Times 'It is notoriously difficult for today's historians to write about war and their own century without bias, haste, or nostalgia. Yet Alan Wilkinson has managed admirably to do so [ - ] It will encourage readers to move away from the encapsulated and often idealized world of 'church history' to the study of 'the church in history.' Robert Runcie, former Archbishop of Canterbury