Liz Truss: “I share the values of the Christian faith”
by Archbishop Cranmer:
In a few weeks the United Kingdom will have a new Prime Minister. On current polling, it looks as though Liz Truss will be invited to kiss hands with the Queen and asked to form a government. She will be Her Majesty’s 15th prime minister, and the third woman to hold that office.
Her moral vision and views on various ethical issues were examined a few weeks ago, but we know very little about her personal spiritual beliefs. She was asked recently if she was someone of faith who practises religion regularly, and she responded candidly: “I share the values of the Christian faith and the Church of England, but I’m not a regular practising religious person.”
Which puts her with most of the country.
Indeed, with most of those who say they are CofE.
In this she articulates the sociological phenomenon identified by Grace Davie, of ‘believing without belonging’. Liz Truss’s belief may or may not extend to the divinity of the person of Christ, but it certainly extends to his values and virtues of the Church of England. For Liz Truss, the civil society which emanates from Christianity is the bedrock for social morality. Her Christian religion and her Millite liberalism aren’t mutually antagonistic, but complementary and reconciled through her Burkean conservatism.
Which puts her with most of the Conservative Party.
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