![]() ![]() A growing respect for religious and cultural pluralism certainly was a mark of Queen Elizabeth’s long reign, yet so was the country’s long colonial history that has inflicted much harm and often distorted the gospel’s aims and purposes. While the era of Charles III is just unfolding, it will be interesting to see how he brings such thinking into practice. You have to come from your own Christian standpoint - in the case I have as Defender of the Faith - and ensuring that other people’s faiths can also be practiced. And so I think you have to see it as both. ![]() I think in that sense she was confirming what I was really trying to say - perhaps not very well - all those years ago. Instead, the Church has a duty to protect the free practice of all faiths in this country. It was very interesting that 20 years or more after I mentioned this - which has been frequently misinterpreted - the queen, in her Jubilee address to the faith leaders, said that as far as the role of the Church of England is concerned, it is not to defend Anglicanism to the exclusion of other religions. And it’s always seemed to me that, while at the same time being Defender of the Faith, you can also be protector of faiths. No, I didn’t describe myself as a defender: I said I would rather be seen as ‘Defender of Faith’ all those years ago because, as I tried to describe, I mind about the inclusion of other people’s faiths and their freedom to worship in this country. “I tried to describe, I mind about the inclusion of other people’s faiths and their freedom to worship in this country.” In 2015, this matter came up again in an interview where Charles addressed his earlier comment: Popularly, the phrase often was misquoted as Charles seeking to be a “defender of the faiths” (plural). His every comment, genteelly aimed at not saying much of anything that would be seen as contrary to his mother’s ways, still made headlines.Īt one point, he commented to an interviewer that he saw his coming time as king as an opportunity to be “Defender of Faith,” which led to some reading the title as a revision of the historic royal title of “Defender of the Faith,” referring to the British crown’s headship of the Church of England. Given the certainty of his coming time as king, the speculation of what type of monarchy Charles III would oversee has been going on for years in the British press. Within one week, a new prime minister occupied 10 Downing Street with incredible economic pressures at hand, and the new sovereign began the delicate work of leading national grief and mourning while also beginning his reign finally at the age of 73. Accompanied by grief and grateful tributes from around the world, Elizabeth II’s death marks the end of a lengthy era of British history (veritably a second Elizabethan age) and the beginning of as much uncertainty as certainty. 8, her heir, Charles, became King Charles III. ![]() With the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. ![]()
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