Why the British stopped going to church.

‘as the nineteenth century wore to its close…it seemed as if there were no good arguments left for religion’ (AN Wilson)

Thus it is argued by Wilson that the collapse in British church attendance in the twentieth century (C20) was an historic inevitability. Such were the advances in mans’ understanding and control of the world that the Church was doomed to be become an increasingly superfluous element in national life. However, far from being a helpless victim witnessing its own demise it will be argued that the Church itself was the most significant contributor to its marginalisation in the lives of C20 Britons...

Read the rest of this longer theological article at: 'UK Church Decline in the C20'