Now that everyone from Ayaan Hirsi Ali to Russell Brand and Richard Dawkins is talking about the goods that past generations of Christians, moved by faith, have bequeathed to our civilisation, a book about what Christianity has given to English culture comes at a favourable time. Bijan Omrani’s learned and lucid God is an Englishman tells of the sometimes obvious, sometimes concealed, often forgotten Christian roots of everything from the fundamental principles of English criminal law to the poetry of John Donne, to English education, music and painting.
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God is an Englishman: Christianity and the creation of England
Bijan Omrani explores how faith shaped the nation’s laws, literature, and culture — tracing the Christian roots of English identity from medieval canon law to Victorian reform, and asking what the Church can still offer modern England.
Peter Day-Milne
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