Maurice Benington Reckitt (19 June 1888 – 11 January 1980) was a leading EnglishAnglo-Catholic andChristian socialist writer. He editedChristendom: A Journal of Christian Sociology from 1931 to 1950.[2] He founded the charity Christendom Trust.[3]
Reckitt was a leading player andcroquet administrator winning theMen's Championship twice (1935 and 1946). Reckitt was on the Council of theCroquet Association between 1929 and 1975, serving as Chairman (1937 to 1939), Vice President (1962 to 1967) and President (1967 to 1975).[4]
The Meaning of National Guilds (1918) with C. E. Bechhofer
Faith and Society: Study of the Structure, Outlook and Opportunity of the Christian Social Movement in Great Britain and the United States of America (1932)
Religion in Social Action (1937)
The Church and the World: Being Materials for the Historical Study of Christian Sociology in two volumes (1938) with Cyril E. Hudson
Church and Society in England from 1800 (1940)
The Vocation of England (1941) with J. V. Langmead Casserley
As It Happened: An Autobiography (1941)
Prospect for Christendom: Essays in Catholic Social Reconstruction (Faber and Faber, 1945), editor, with F. N. Davey,V. A. Demant,E. L. Mascall,T. S. Eliot,Philip Mairet,Patrick McLaughlin, T. M. Heron, Ruth Kenyon, David G. Peck, William G. Peck, Charles Smyth, Cyril E. Hudson, Henry Balmforth, Rosalinde Wilton, P. E. T. Widdrington
The Christian in Politics (1946)
Maurice to Temple: A Century of the Social Movement in the Church of England (Faber and Faber 1946), Holland Lectures 1946
G. K. Chesterton: A Christian Prophet for England Today (1950) pamphlet
The World and the Faith: Essays of a Christian Sociologist (1954)
Croquet Today (Macdonald & Co 1954)
Militant Here in Earth: Considerations on the Prophetic Function of the Church in the 20th Century (1957)
P. E. T. Widdrington: A Study in Vocation and Versatility (1961)
For Christ and the People: Studies of Four Socialist Priests and Prophets of the Church of England Between 1870–1930 (1968), editor, with Stephen Yeo, Kenneth Leach, and Robert Woodifield; on Thomas Hancock (1832–1903),Stewart Headlam (1847–1924),Charles Marson (1859–1914),Conrad Noel (1869–1942)
Coupland, Philip M. (2016) [2012]. "Anglican Peace Aims and the Christendom Group, 1939–1945". In Parker, Stephen G.; Lawson, Tom (eds.).God and War: The Church of England and Armed Conflict in the Twentieth Century. Abingdon, England: Routledge. pp. 99–120.doi:10.4324/9781315585222.ISBN978-1-317-12667-6.
