Dissertations on Subjects Relating to the "Orthodox" or "Eastern-Catholic" Communion

23x14cm, viii, 336 pp, Several light stains to spine. Bottom edge heavily rubbed. Name inked on flyleaf. An ink-drop stain to one page-margin. William Palmer (1811-1879) [".an extreme high churchman & a devoted advocate of intercommunion with the Greek & Roman churches; made several unsuccessful attempts to obtain admission to the Greek church without declaring the English church heretical; entered the Roman communion without rebaptism,1855, passing the rest of his life at Rome in retirement."- Concise DNB,1.]. Contents: Of the distinctive title, present state, & apparent prospects of the "Orthodox" Communion; Of the present apparent conflict between "Orthodoxy" & "Catholicism"; The Aspect of the Russian part of the "Orthodox" Church at the commencement of the Reformation of Luther; being "An Account of the Religion of the Muscovites, written by John Faber for Ferdinand King of the Romans, to whom he was Confessor", A. D. 1525; Destinies of the Slavonic Empire; Probation & Failure of the Tsar Alexis Michaelovich, with the Nobility & Hierarchy of Russia, in the 17th Century; Of Civil Government,Obedience,& Liberty, in relation to Orthodox Christianity; Reflections on the right method of conducting religious controversy; Remarks on the present state of particular controversies between the "Orthodox" & the "Roman-Catholic" Churches; Of the bearing of the Theory of Doctrinal Development on the Controversy between the Orthodox & the Roman-Catholic Churches; On the Controversy Respecting the Procession of the Holy Ghost; Certain Opinions prevalent in the Greek part of the Eastern Orthodox Church respecting Baptism; Translation of a Memorial presented to the Patriarch of Constantinople.1851; 4 Documents,3 Spine sunned. Bindign edge rubbed. Good.…