Henry Falconer Barclay Mackay

Henry Falconer Barclay Mackay (fl. 1911) was an English clergyman. Quotes The English world is much more interested in religion now than it was at the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign. Then the Christian religion was to it what the British constitution was — the beneficent and unquestioned system under which it was so fortunate as to live. . . . They had their children baptized, provided them with Bibles, taught them to fear God and hope for forgiveness through the merits of their Saviour, to go to church, and to refrain from work and play on Sundays, to honour the Queen, and to do nothing unworthy of an English gentleman.Here was the Church, here were some of the elements of Catholic Christianity, but as the majority held it, this national selection from Catholic Christianity had come to be a kind of Christian Shinto, a tradition of ancestral piety dressed in Christian clothes. Now it is this that is dying, this English Shinto, and it is dying because the world has again become interested in religion. The Religion of the Englishman: A Series of Six Addresses Delivered at All Saints' Margaret Street (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911), no. I, pp. 7–8. Compare: David Starkey, in The Guardian (22 April 2012) External links Q141198799 Category:Church of England clergy Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:University of Oxford alumni