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Acknowledgments

Most of the content of this book was composed for delivery as the 2011 Didsbury Lectures at the Nazarene Theological College, Manchester. I am bound and glad, therefore, to record my thanks to colleagues at the College both for honouring me with the invitation to lecture and for providing warm hospitality during my sojourn with them.

In addition, I also owe thanks to Mr. William Sheehan, the historian of colonial counter-insurgency campaigns, and to Dr. Simon Kingston, for confirming that my construal of Irish history in chapter 4 is not implausible.

Some of the material in chapters 1, 2, and 3 has appeared elsewhere. Chapter 1 is a heavily reworked version of “The Value of Limited Loyalty,” which found first published expression in Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives (edited by David Miller and Sohail Hashmi and published by Princeton University Press in 2001). Chapter 2 is based mainly on “Why the Establishment of the Church of England is Good for a Liberal Society,” which originally appeared in The Established Church: Past, Present and Future (edited by Mark Chapman, Judith Maltby, and William Whyte, and published by T. & T. Clark in 2011); but it also draws from “Saving the ‘Secular’: the Public Vocation of Moral Theology,” Journal of Religious Ethics 37.1 (2009). Chapter 3 echoes parts of chapter 6 of my own In

Defence of War (Oxford University Press, 2013). I gratefully acknowledge the permission given by all three publishers to borrow material from these publications.