Liberal modernity and its associated individualism have created conditions in which a case for an established Church appears to contradict all the principles of social diversity. But the characteristic mechanisms of liberal modernity for managing difference – the ballot and the market – have proved inadequate to prevent social divisions from deepening, as the national argument about Brexit demonstrates. Despite the Church of England's lack of a confident narrative of establishment and the tendency to evaluate establishment on pragmatic grounds, this article proposes that a robust theological defence of establishment can be made in terms of both Anglican ecclesiology and a theology of power and authority in which the highest sources of authority are those with the least power. Whether the Church of England is able to regain confidence in such a theology of establishment and rise to the challenge of generating a unifying national narrative of identity post-Brexit, is left as an open question.

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建立：一些神学考虑

自由现代性及其相关的个人主义创造了条件，在这种条件下，建立教会的情况似乎与社会多样性的所有原则相矛盾。但是，正如关于英国退欧的全国争论所表明的那样，管理差异的自由现代性的特征机制——选票和市场——已被证明不足以防止社会分歧加深。尽管英格兰教会缺乏对建立的自信叙述和基于实用理由评估建立的倾向，但本文提出，可以根据圣公会教会学和权力和权威神学对建立进行强有力的神学辩护，其中最高权力来源是那些权力最小的人。