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Christianity in England is dying – and our national identity with it

The self, not society, has begun to matter most to people, with the collective life threatened by ragged bands of individualists lacking a sense of history and burdened by the mere present

19 April 2025

9:00 AM

19 April 2025

9:00 AM

God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England Bijan Omrani

Forum, pp.400, 25

‘Christianity,’ writes Bijan Omrani in his opening sentence, ‘is dying in England.’ Does it matter? His next sentence makes it clear that, for him at least, it does. ‘In this generation, the religion that has defined the spiritual life, identity and culture of the country since its origins as a unified state in the 10th century has come into its death agony.’

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