CHURCH AND STATE Some Reflections on Church Establishment in England R.M. Morris (editor) March 2008 ISBN: 1-903903-02-5 Published by The Constitution Unit Department of Political Science UCL (University College London) 29-30 Tavistock Square London WC1H 9QU Tel: 020 7679 4977 Fax: 020 7679 4978 Email:
[email protected] Web: www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/ © The Constitution Unit, UCL 2008 This report is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. First published March 2008 2 Table of Contents Foreword…………………………………………………………………………………. 5 Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………. 7 Chapter 1………………………………………………………………………………… 9 Notes on Church and State: A Mapping Exercise Dr E R Norman Chapter 2………………………………………………………………………………… 14 A View from one of the Free Churches Nigel G Wright Chapter 3………………………………………………………………………………… 23 View of a Critical Friend – the United Reformed Church Geoffrey Roper Chapter 4………………………………………………………………………………… 33 A Quaker Point of View Nicholas A Sims Chapter 5………………………………………………………………………………… 41 Public Authorities and Religious Denominations in Italy and Spain Javier García Oliva Chapter 6………………………………………………………………………………… 51 Religion and the State in an Open Society Andrew Copson and David Pollack Chapter 7………………………………………………………………………………… 59 The National Secular Society Keith Porteous Wood Chapter 8………………………………………………………………………………… 75 Perspectives from Within the Church of England William Fittall Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………... 81 3 4 Foreword Preparatory to a seminar taking place in July 2006, the Constitution Unit published in April 2006 Church and State: a mapping exercise – known as the Mapping document or paper.