04 May 2023, The Tablet

Church, State and the paradox of establishment


The Coronation of King Charles III

Church, State and the paradox of establishment

Three of the first 32 Anglican women priests ordained at Bristol Cathedral in March 1994.
photo: alamy, Eye Ubiquitous

 
As a coronation gift to the King and Supreme Governor of the Church of England, a prominent Anglican theologian toasts a theoretically theocratic institution that has become a bastion of liberalism / By THEO HOBSON
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