Anglican Liturgy and Ecclesiology Collection (6 vols.)

by Vernon Staley; J. Wickham Legg; E. G. Cuthbert F. Atchley

Publisher:

Alexander Moring

, 1902–1905

Overview

The Oxford Movement changed the course of English Church history in the nineteenth century. The growing interest in reviving Catholic elements of liturgy and theology in the English Church sparked debate between the Church of England’s evangelical and High Church elements. Proponents of the Anglo-Catholic revival sought to reconnect the Church to its early roots, while opponents decried any attempt to “Romanize” it.

This collection opens a window onto that period of Anglo-Catholic revival and Ritualism, offering texts that focus on ceremonial aspects of Anglican Church life and history. Examine Anglicanism’s ties to Catholicism more closely and study Anglican liturgy with six volumes from the Library of Liturgiology & Ecclesiology series, including the Cambridge Camden Society’s Hierurgia Anglicana—which documents the practice of Catholic ceremony in the Church after the Reformation. You’ll also get collected essays on Church ceremony and ritual, an English translation of the Ordo Romanus Primus, and essays relating to ecclesiology.

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Key Features

• Offers a window onto England’s nineteenth-century Anglo-Catholic revival and surrounding controversy
• Presents texts that discuss Anglican liturgy, ceremony, and ecclesiology
• Illustrates the continuance of Catholic elements in the post-Reformation English Church

Product Details

• Title: Anglican Liturgy and Ecclesiology Collection
• Series: Library of Liturgiology & Ecclesiology for English Readers
• Publisher: Alexander Moring
• Volumes: 6
• Pages: 1,869
• Christian Group: Anglican
• Resource Type: Topical; Collected Essays
• Topic: Ecclesiology; Liturgical Theology

Hierurgia Anglicana, Part I

• Editor: Vernon Staley
• Series: Library of Liturgiology & Ecclesiology for English Readers
• Publisher: Alexander Moring, LTD
• Publication Date: 1902
• Pages: 348

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Hierugria Anglicana, which originally appeared in multiple volumes between 1843 and 1848, compiles extracts which illustrate post-Reformation usage of Catholic ceremony in Anglican churches. The text was originally compiled by members of the Ecclesiological Society (formerly the Cambridge Camden Society), an influential group who promoted the revival of medieval Gothic church architecture in the nineteenth century. This collection of documents, revised and enlarged by editor Vernon Staley in 1902, was designed to prove the continuance and survival of liturgical and ecclesiological traditions after the Reformation, and advocating for the revival of ceremonial elements that had languished or disappeared through the Puritan influence on the Church.

Part I contains extracts focusing primarily on the ornaments and ministers of the Church.

Hierurgia Anglicana, Part II

• Editor: Vernon Staley
• Series: Library of Liturgiology & Ecclesiology for English Readers
• Publisher: Alexander Moring, LTD
• Publication Date: 1903
• Pages: 313

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Hierugria Anglicana, which originally appeared in multiple volumes between 1843 and 1848, compiles extracts which illustrate post-Reformation usage of Catholic ceremony in Anglican churches. The text was originally compiled by members of the Ecclesiological Society (formerly the Cambridge Camden Society), an influential group who promoted the revival of medieval Gothic church architecture in the nineteenth century. This collection of documents, revised and enlarged by editor Vernon Staley in 1902, was designed to prove the continuance and survival of liturgical and ecclesiological traditions after the Reformation, and advocating for the revival of ceremonial elements that had languished or disappeared through the Puritan influence on the Church.

Part II contains extracts that pertain to “usages, postures, and gestures,” and when combined with Part I of the work, covers “the whole area of Anglican Ceremonial in post-Reformation times.”

Hierurgia Anglicana, Part III

• Editor: Vernon Staley
• Series: Library of Liturgiology & Ecclesiology for English Readers
• Publisher: Alexander Moring, LTD
• Publication Date: 1904
• Pages: 368

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Hierugria Anglicana, which originally appeared in multiple volumes between 1843 and 1848, compiles extracts which illustrate post-Reformation usage of Catholic ceremony in Anglican churches. The text was originally compiled by members of the Ecclesiological Society (formerly the Cambridge Camden Society), an influential group who promoted the revival of medieval Gothic church architecture in the nineteenth century. This collection of documents, revised and enlarged by editor Vernon Staley in 1902, was designed to prove the continuance and survival of liturgical and ecclesiological traditions after the Reformation, and advocating for the revival of ceremonial elements that had languished or disappeared through the Puritan influence on the Church.

Part III contains extracts that “fall under the heads of ritual and discipline, as contrasted with ceremonial.”

Essays on Ceremonial

• Editor: Vernon Staley
• Series: Library of Liturgiology & Ecclesiology for English Readers
• Publisher: Alexander Moring, LTD
• Publication Date: 1904
• Pages: 311

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Published amidst the Anglo-Catholic revival in the nineteenth century in England, and the push to revive medieval Catholic ceremony and architecture, this volume contains seven essays by various writers which discuss the ceremonial of the Anglican Church. They cover liturgical customs, church architecture, vestments, and more.

Contents:

• “English Ceremonial” by E.G. Cuthbert F. Atchley
• “On Some Ancient Liturgical Customs Now Falling Into Disuse” by J. Wickham Legg
• “On English Liturgical Colours” by E.G. Cuthbert F. Atchley
• “Church Vestments” by Percy Dearmer
• “The Altar and Its Furniture” by Percy Dearmer
• “Some Remarks on the Edwardian Prayer-Book” by E.G. Cuthbert F. Atchley
• “The Genius of the Roman Rite” by Edmund Bishop

Ordo Romanus Primus

• Editors: Vernon Staley and E.G. Cuthbert F. Atchley
• Series: Library of Liturgiology & Ecclesiology for English Readers
• Publisher: Alexander Moring, LTD
• Publication Date: 1905
• Pages: 254

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This volume presents an English version of the Latin Ordo Romanus Primus, which enables readers to visualize “a Roman church, and the ceremonies that were used at a public mass therein, as they were in the eighth century of the Christian era.” The text offers introduction to the Catholic Church, its ministers, and its ornaments, as well as solemn Mass and its ritual, complete with illustrations. The text is an ideal resource for the “intelligent Churchman who is interested in the rites and ceremonies of the Catholic Church, but has little leisure or opportunity of examining the numerous works that deal with the whole or parts of the matters that belong to the ceremonial of solemn Mass.”

E.G. Cuthbert F. Atchley was also the author of A History of the Use of Incense in Divine Worship, The Parish Clerk and His Right to Read the Liturgical Epistle, and The People’s Prayers: Being Some Considerations on the Use of the Litany in Public Worship.

Ecclesiological Essays

• Author: J. Wickham Legg
• Editor: Vernon Staley
• Series: Library of Liturgiology & Ecclesiology for English Readers
• Publisher: Alexander Moring, LTD
• Publication Date: 1905
• Pages: 275

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

In this collection of essays, liturgical scholar and enthusiast J. Wickham Legg discusses a number of subjects connected with ecclesiology. These essays on various elements of liturgy and ceremony were originally published between 1895 and 1900 in publications such as The Church Quarterly Review and The Church Times.

Contents:

• “Revised and Shortened Services”
• “Medieval Ceremonial”
• “On Two Unusual Forms of Linen Vestments”
• “On the Three Ways of Canonical Election”
• “A Comparative Study of the Time in the Christian Liturgy at Which the Elements Are Prepared and Set on the Holy Table”
• “Notes on the Marriage Service in the Book of Common Prayer”
• “The Lambeth Hearing: A Criticism of Some of the Arguments”

John Wickham Legg (1843–1921) was a British doctor and liturgical scholar. He served as the medical attendant to Queen Victoria’s son, the Duke of Albany, for a year before serving as curator of the Pathological Museum at University College. He then began working at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. In 1875, Legg was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and in 1879 he helped to reestablish the Cambridge Camden Society/Ecclesiological Society (as St. Paul’s Ecclesiological Society). He also helped to form the Henry Bradshaw Society in 1890, which focused on publishing manuscripts and rare works. Legg helped to publish a new editions of Cardinal Quiñones’ reformed Roman Breviary, the manuscript Westminster Missal, and the Sarum Missal.

About the Editor

Vernon Staley (1852–1933) was an Anglican cleric and writer, who served as provost of the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew Inverness. He also wrote The Ceremonial of the English Church, Studies in Ceremonial, The Catholic Religion: A Manual of Instruction for Members of the Anglican Communion, and others.