Dependence, Or, the Insecurity of the Anglican Position (Paperback)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: K. Paul, Trench Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christianity / Catholic Religion / Christianity / Episcopalian Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Theology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. ' PETER HATH SPOKEN BY LEO.' The Fathers of Chalcedon. The author of the pamphlet with which I dealt in the last chapter, describes himself as one of those who belonged to the original Tractarian movement, but who, instead of following in the steps of Newman and Manning, Allies and Coleridge, Christie and Oakeley and Faber, and Ward and Caswall, and a host of others, remained in the Establishment and ' has lived and worked on since they ' left us, upon the same lines which they taught us, still ' treasuring the tone and spirit in which they wrote as ' English divines.' (' Roman Question,' p. 54.) He has now given us his ripest thoughts on the Roman question -- on, at least, 'some salient points' and ' leading ' details ' (Preface). ' He has earnestly desired to be fair, ' to exaggerate nothing, and to avoid any hard expressions ' (tout.) It must, therefore, be a matter of the deepest interest to see what are the grounds in history and the Fathers, on which such a writer (who calls himself 'an aged ' priest,' and is known to be one of the most influential clergymen of the Church of England at the present moment) bases his view of these ' salient points ' in the question between Rome and England. We naturally look to his view of the Council of Chalcedon, and of Leo the Great. Fresh interest ha...