The origins, context and ideology of industrial mission, 1875-1975
During the years following the Second World War, the ~industrial mission~ movement has attained a position of some prominence within the major denominations in England, especially within the established Church. Although the movement appears to be novel, it is in fact but the latest development in a series of movements whose origins reach back to the last . quarter of the nineteenth century and whose history is traced in this volume. The description and analysis of these movements focusses on the developing ideology of industrial mission and its relation to the social and economic order which provided the context of mission activity and to which the missions constituted a response. Industrial mission ideology has usually evidenced a strong ethical concern with social and industrial relations expressed in ideas about ~the social relevance of Christian teaching~ or ~the need to discover the social meaning of the Gospel~ and yet, paradoxically, at the level of practical issues, the missions have tended to collapse into ambiguity and incoherence. As a sociological type of religious movement, the Church seeks to comprehend the whole society and all legitimate interests within its embrace and thus tends to provide
Lurkings, E. H.
History
The origins, context and ideology of industrial mission, 1875-1975. During the years following the Second World War, the ~industrial mission~ movement has attained a position of some prominence within the major denominations in England, especially within the established Church. Although the movement appears to be novel, it is in fact but the latest development in a series of movements whose origins reach back to the last . quarter of the nineteenth century and whose history is traced in this volume. The description and analysis of these movements focusses on the developing ideology of industrial mission and its relation to the social and economic order which provided the context of mission activity and to which the missions constituted a response. Industrial mission ideology has usually evidenced a strong ethical concern with social and industrial relations expressed in ideas about ~the social relevance of Christian teaching~ or ~the need to discover the social meaning of the Gospel~ and yet, paradoxically, at the level of practical issues, the missions have tended to collapse into ambiguity and incoherence. As a sociological type of religious movement, the Church seeks to comprehend the whole society and all legitimate interests within its embrace and thus tends to provide
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