T. D. Atfield, University of Birmingham & The Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham
I think the art of academia is taking a paragraph and turning it into a monograph [Laughter] and certainly I’m going to have to make heroic virtue out of dire necessity because I realised I have a doctoral project that can actually be summarised in one word. My question was, did a certain report by the Church of England change the practices of local congregations within the Church of England, and the answer was no [laughter], so what I would like to do is, I would like to present a cautionary tale or a story about what happens when the corporate theological reflection of the Church fails to understand what happens in local congregations.