The Fantasy of Reunion: Anglicans, Catholics, and Ecumenism

by Mark D. Chapman

This book discusses the different understandings of "catholicity" that emerged in the interactions between the Church of England and other churches--particularly the Roman Catholic Church and later the Old Catholic Churches--from the early 1830s to the early 1880s. It presents a pre-history of ecumenism, which isolates some of the most distinctive features of the ecclesiological positions of the different churches as these developed through the turmoil...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199688060
• ISBN13: 9780199688067
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"