{"product_id":"9781782395041","title":"Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eroad, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church as its true spiritual guardian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOur Church\u003c\/i\u003e, Scruton argues that the Anglican Church is the forlorn trustee of an architectural and artistic inheritance that remains one of the treasures of European civilization. He contends that it is a still point in the centre of English culture and that its defining texts, the \u003ci\u003eKing James Bible \u003c\/i\u003eand the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook of Common Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e are the sources from which much of our national identity derives. At once an elegy to a vanishing world and a clarion call to recognize Anglicanism's continuing relevance, Our Church is a graceful and persuasive book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165661970672,"sku":"9781782395041","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781782395041_p0.jpg?v=1763719413","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781782395041","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}