Anglo Catholics, Authority, and Ritualism in Victorian England

This book examines the rise of Ritualism in the Church of England in the 19th Century. This scholarly work Includes the relationship of Ritualism to the Oxford Movement and to the subsequent Anglo-Catholic Ritual movement. An analysis of both movements is given with documented research from a legal, theological, Biblical, and apologetic frame of reference. It is must reading for scholars and researchers in the field of theology and ecclesiology. This work is equally useful for clergymen, layman, and historians of Anglo Catholic Ritualism. Topics include: John Mason Neale; the SSC; The Oxford Movement; the legal debate over Canon Law, Prayer Book rubrics; Elizabethan Advertisements; and Evangelical responses.Initially submitted as a doctoral dissertation at Wycliffe Hall, the University of Oxford, under the title, "ANGLO-CATHOLICS AND THE VESTMENT CONTROVERSY LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE QUESTION OF AUTHORITY.[Some clergy receiving particular attention: John Purchas; Alexander Mackonochie; Charles Lowder; Edward Pusey; JH Newman; John Keble;] Read more