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Honey from the Lion: Christianity and the Ethics of Nationalism1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2014

Nigel Biggar
Nigel Biggar*
Affiliation:
Christ Church College, Oxford OX1 1DP, UKnigel.biggar@chch.ox.ac.uk
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Extract

This book comprises a Christian apologia for nationalism in general and for Scottish separatist nationalism in particular. It is only fair that the reader should know that its reviewer is an Anglo-Scottish unionist.

Keywords

BritishnessChristian ethicsimperialismnationalismScottish independencesecession
Type
Article Review
Information
Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 67 , Issue 3 , August 2014 , pp. 357 - 365
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 2014 

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Footnotes

1

Doug Gay, Honey from the Lion: Christianity and the Ethics of Nationalism (London: SCM, 2013), pp. 192. £19.99.

References

2 Curtice, John and Ormston, Rachel, ‘On the Road to Divergence? Trends in Public Opinion in Scotland and England’, in British Social Attitudes 28, ed. Parks, Alison, Clery, Elizabeth, Curtice, John, Phillips, Miranda, Utting, David at the National Centre for Social Research (London: Sage, 2012), pp. 33–4Google Scholar. While published in 2012, the data was collected in 2010.

3 Biggar, Nigel is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford and author of Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2014)Google Scholar. With Doug Gay he shares a birthplace in Castle-Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire.