Anglo-Catholicism (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Anglo-Catholicism The Anglo-Catholic Movement has been described, without exaggeration, as the most wonderful movement that the Church has over witnessed. The vastness of the change it has made in the English Church, as the result of recalling it to forgotten first principles of its life and being, is known to everyone. Like everything worth while the Movement has, of course, provoked violent hostility. Like Christianity itself it is to some a stumbling-block, to others foolishness. Thus to the Protestants it is a libel on the Gospel, to the Roman Catholics a parody of Catholicism. "By their fruits, " it has been said, "ye shall know." The fruits of logical Protestantism are to be seen in Germany and other countries to-day. They spell unbelief. The fruits of Anglo-Catholicism are to be seen by all in the growth of the Religious Life once again in the English Church, by the spread of intelligent devotion, of stricter lives, of a piety which is not distinguishable from Catholic piety in other parts of the Catholic Church. No thoughtful man will hold any section of the Church to be perfect. He will see onesidedness everywhere, the fruit of disunion. In one Communion he will perceive a too cast-iron rigidity, in another a refusal to advance and develop, in our own a liberty which has degenerated into licence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.