Margaret Thatcher in Conflict with the Church, in Accord with the Rabbi: The Case of Faith in the City and From Doom to Hope.

In the mid-1980s, the Church of England published Faith in the City, a report about urban conditions, focused primarily on how the Church should respond and secondarily on suggested Governmental interventions. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher understood the report as a referendum on her administrati...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Communication & Religion Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 5 - 18
Autor principal:	Spencer, Leland G.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Religious Communication Association Winter2025
Materias:	Thatcher, Margaret, 1925-2013 Church of England Individualism Inner cities British prime ministers Government report writing Religious disputations Anglican Communion Religious leaders Jewish leadership England
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Sumario:	In the mid-1980s, the Church of England published Faith in the City, a report about urban conditions, focused primarily on how the Church should respond and secondarily on suggested Governmental interventions. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher understood the report as a referendum on her administration, but Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of the UK's Orthodox Congregations, came to Thatcher's defense in a rejoinder entitled From Doom to Hope. This essay analyzes both documents and fragments of Thatcher's responses, arguing that Jakobovits's support offered a greater claim to a moral basis for Thatcher's rhetorical theology of individualism.