LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. London, Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION COMPANY, New York 1925 I. The Church of England. By the BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER. John Murray. 1924. 2. 3. 4. The Development of Theology in the Nineteenth Century. By CANON Conflict of Ideals in the Church. By the REV. R. D. RICHARDSON. John The Genius of the English Church. By the REV. A. FAWKES. John hath been the wisdom of the Church of England," says the Preface to the Prayerbook, of her Publick Liturgy, to keep the mean between the two extremes." In more precise and picturesque language, a divine of the same period defines the extremes as the meretricious gaudiness of the Church of Rome, and the squalid sluttery of fanatick conventicles." But the Englishman, like a sailor on shore, preserves his equilibrium by rolling heavily from side to side, still keeping somewhere near the middle of the road. His institutions, both secular and religious, reflect this national habit. An ecclesiastical historian, the late Mr. Warre Cornish, has said that the average duration of a lurch, or "movement,' in the Church of England, is about two generations. If this is so, a reaction from the tendency which has been dominant since the Oxford Movement is somewhat overdue. The conflict of ideals in the National Church can be understood only through its history. As Mark Pattison said: "Both the Church and the world of to-day are what they are as the result of the whole of their antecedents. The history of a party may All rights reserved. VOL. 241. NO. 491. |