Church of England clergy are overwhelmingly committed to the parish system, despite the challenges it poses, a new survey by YouGov suggests.
This is one of the clearest findings to come out of new research devised by the team behind last year’s Westminster Faith Debates.
The survey asked 1500 Anglican clergy, chosen at random…how important the parish system was to them: 83 per cent said important, 12 per cent said not important, and five per cent held no strong view.
The only other of the 29 questions asked that generated such unanimity, regardless of church tradition, concerned the nature of God: 83 per cent believed in a personal God; nine per cent answered: “No one can know what God is like.”
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(Church Times) Survey finds C of E clergy wedded to the parish system
Church of England clergy are overwhelmingly committed to the parish system, despite the challenges it poses, a new survey by YouGov suggests.
This is one of the clearest findings to come out of new research devised by the team behind last year’s Westminster Faith Debates.
The survey asked 1500 Anglican clergy, chosen at random…how important the parish system was to them: 83 per cent said important, 12 per cent said not important, and five per cent held no strong view.
The only other of the 29 questions asked that generated such unanimity, regardless of church tradition, concerned the nature of God: 83 per cent believed in a personal God; nine per cent answered: “No one can know what God is like.”
Read it all.