ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the use of churchmanship in empirical research. The assumption that churchmanship was only related to the Catholic/Evangelical spectrum began to change with Towler and Coxon. Towler and Coxon offered six churchmanship labels to their respondents which they then collapsed into three groups: catholics, modernists and evangelicals. Daniel made an attempt to infer churchmanship from the theological college which a member of the clergy had attended, but it proved impossible. Bryman, Ranson and Hinings described churchmanship as 'that theological stance, or framework of religious belief, which defines a person's relation to God in specific forms of devotional and ritualistic activities, and defines for that person how to interpret his or her faith in the secular world'. In attempting to measure churchmanship by applying a quantitative index to it, the researcher is likely to encounter ecclesiological, philosophical and methodological issues.
