The Case AGAINST Slavery Reparations with Nigel Biggar

The Church of England's Church Commissioners are ear-marking £100million (or is it £1billion?) for slavery reparations. Emeritus Professor of Moral Theology and Member of the House of Lords, Nigel Biggar says that this idea is ethically dubious and amounts to thinly-veiled self-flagellation in an effort to appear relevant to a post-Christian society in the face of the Church's dwindling numbers and influence. CofE rev with a difference Jamie Franklin sits down to talk with Lord Biggar about his new book and related issues:
• The shady world of the Church of England's Project Spire: its methodology, processes and rationale for reparations.
• Historical arguments for and against reparations by the Church of England.
• The wider context of the ethical debate around reparations including the ubiquity of slavery, British abolitionism and the suppression of slavery, and the "riotous jungle of history".
• Why arguments for reparations are based on a lack of understanding of, and sympathy for, our forbears.
• What is the relationship of Woke orthodoxy to Christianity.
• The Early Church and slavery.
• The legality (or not) of reparations.
• Hopes for the new book and the future Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, vis-a-vis this issue.
Find Lord Biggar's Substack 'The Biggar Picture': nigelbiggar.co.uk
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