Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Into battle
- 2 The defensive years
- 3 Through the Waste Land
- 4 Continuing nadir
- 5 The turning tide
- 6 Towards the conversion of many
- 7 Flood-tide of Evangelism
- 8 Anatomy of Evangelicalism
- 9 The Fundamentalist issue
- 10 The hard facts of Evangelicals and unity
- 11 The Honest to God debate
- 12 Liturgical debates
- 13 Charismatic differences
- 14 Keele – a watershed
- 15 Evangelical identity – a problem
- Notes
- Index
3 - Through the Waste Land
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Into battle
- 2 The defensive years
- 3 Through the Waste Land
- 4 Continuing nadir
- 5 The turning tide
- 6 Towards the conversion of many
- 7 Flood-tide of Evangelism
- 8 Anatomy of Evangelicalism
- 9 The Fundamentalist issue
- 10 The hard facts of Evangelicals and unity
- 11 The Honest to God debate
- 12 Liturgical debates
- 13 Charismatic differences
- 14 Keele – a watershed
- 15 Evangelical identity – a problem
- Notes
- Index
Summary
One of the most far-sighted but potentially highly inflammatory moves in Anglican circles in the early twenties was initiated by the leading Anglo-Catholic, Lord Halifax. It consisted of Anglican-Roman Catholic conversations at Malines in Belgium, held between 1921 and 1925 which, with the exception of the inaugural meeting, were all held with the cognizance of both Canterbury and Rome. During these conversations, agreement was reached that, if union could be achieved, it should be on the basis of the Pope being recognised as first in honour, that the Body and Blood of Christ were received in the Eucharist and that the sacrifice of the Eucharist was both real and mystical. Naturally, when news of these conversations reached Protestant circles in the Church of England, alarm bells rang, for predictably, the Anglican representatives at the conversations were all drawn from High-Church circles. In a letter to Archbishop Davidson, dated 24 January 1924, Sir William Joynson-Hicks (Home Secretary 1924-9) made the point:
Are we to suppose that your Grace regards persons holding the views of Lord Halifax, Bishop Howard Frere, Bishop Gore, and Dr Kidd as the only or truest representatives of the position of the English Church? If so, the position must indeed have changed.
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- From Controversy to Co-ExistenceEvangelicals in the Church of England 1914–1980, pp. 30 - 38Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985