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:''This article discusses 'national churches' in the ethnic sense. See state church for church organizations at a national level. For Catholic churches in Rome associated with various countries, see National churches in Rome.'' A National church is a Christian church associated with a specific ethnic group or nation state. The idea was notably discussed during the 19th century, during the emergence of modern nationalism. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in a draft discussing the question of church and state around 1828 wrote that :"a National Church might exist, and has existed, without (), because before the institution of the ''Christian'' Church - as () the Levitical Church in the Hebrew Constitution, () the Druidical in the Celtic, would suffice to prove".〔Samuel Taylor Coleridge. ''(On the Constitution of the Church and State )''. Classic Books Company; 2001. ISBN 978-0-7426-8368-6. p. (59 ).〕 John Wordsworth, bishop of Salisbury, wrote about the National Church of Sweden in 1911, interpreting the Church of Sweden and the Church of England as national churches of the Swedish and the English peoples, respectively. Lake (1987) traces the development of Presbyterianism in 16th-century England from the status of a "godly minority" which saw itself surrounded by the corrupt or hostile mass of the population, into a "genuine national church".〔Peter Lake, Maria Dowling, ''Protestantism and the national church in sixteenth century England'', Taylor & Francis, 1987, ISBN, 9780709916819, ch. 8 (193ff.)〕 The concept of a national church remains alive in the Protestantism of England and Scandinavia in particular. While, in a context of England, the national church remains a common denominator for the Church of England, some of the Lutheran "folk churches" of Scandinavia, characterized as national churches in the ethnic sense as opposed to the idea of a state church, emerged in the second half of the 19th century, following the lead of Grundtvig.〔Dag Thorkildsen, 'Scandinavia: Lutheranism and national identity', in ''World Christianities, c. 1815-1914'', vol. 8 of The Cambridge history of Christianity, eds. Sheridan Gilley, Brian Stanley, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-81456-0, pp. 342–358.〕 However, in countries in which the state church (also known as the established church) has the following of the majority of citizens, the state church may also be the national church, and may be declared as such by the government e.g. Church of Denmark, Church of Greece, Church of Iceland. == Countries == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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