Maurice Benington Reckitt (19th May 1888 – 11th January 1980) was a leading British Anglo-Catholic and Christian Socialist writer. He edited Christendom, A Journal of Christian Sociology from 1931 to 1950.

Earlier he was a supporter of guild socialism

Guild socialism

Guild socialism is a political movement advocating workers' control of industry through the medium of trade-related guilds. It originated in the United Kingdom and was at its most influential in the first quarter of the 20th century. It was strongly associated with G. D. H...

 and a founder of the National Guilds League.

Reckitt was a leading player and croquet

Croquet

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 administrator winning the Men's Championship

Croquet Association

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 twice (1935 and 1946). Reckitt was President of the Croquet Association

Croquet Association

The Croquet Association, which was formed as the United All England Croquet Association in 1897 , is the national governing body for the sport of croquet in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle Of Man. Until 1974 the association was responsible for croquet in the whole...

 between 1967 and 1975.

Works

• 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 Scoiety 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
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• 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
• Industry and Democracy (c. 1950) pamphlet
• The World and the Faith: Essays of a Christian Sociologist (1954)
• Croquet Today (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
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• Politics and The Faith