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The Christian Remembrancer - Softcover

F.C. & J. Rivington

 
9780371702895: The Christian Remembrancer

Synopsis

"The Christian Remembrancer". A dense, polemical survey in a mid-19th-century British religious periodical that synthesizes three long discussions: Dr. Pusey’s Eirenicon and its reception among Anglicans, Roman Catholics, and the Eastern Church; a critical examination of English hexameter translations of Homer; and a thorough review of Lecky’s History of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, followed by an extended Notices section of contemporary books and essays. The piece probes ecumenism, church authority, and the tension between practical union and doctrinal purity, contemplating Marian doctrine (the Immaculate Conception) and its possible implications for Anglican–Catholic reconciliation, even as it gauges how Rome’s stance in the 1860s might shape prospects for reunion. It also weighs the role of press reception in shaping public opinion, and includes discussions of meter, prosody, and translation among Dart, Derby, Voss, and Pope; and textual critique of rationalist histories. The tone remains scholarly, argumentative, and editorial, emblematic of Victorian religious controversy.

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