OCCASIONAL PAPERS
SELECTED FROM THE GUARDIAN, THE TIMES, AND THE SATURDAY REVIEW 1846-1890
By the late R.W. CHURCH, M.A., D.C.L. Sometime Rector of Whatley, Dean of St. Paul's, Honorary Fellow of Oriel College
In Two Vols.--VOL. II
London Macmillan and Co., Limited New York: The Macmillan Company
1897
_First Edition February_ 1897 _Reprinted April_ 1897
CONTENTS
I MR. GLADSTONE ON THE ROYAL SUPREMACY
II JOYCE ON COURTS OF SPIRITUAL APPEAL
III PRIVY COUNCIL JUDGMENTS
IV SIR JOHN COLERIDGE ON THE PURCHAS CASE
V MR. GLADSTONE'S LETTER ON THE ENGLISH CHURCH
VI DISENDOWMENT
VII THE NEW COURT
VIII MOZLEY'S BAMPTON LECTURES
IX ECCE HOMO
X THE AUTHOR OF "ROBERT ELSMERE" ON A NEW REFORMATION
XI RENAN'S "VIE DE JESUS"
XII RENAN'S "LES APOTRES"
XIII RENAN'S HIBBERT LECTURES
XIV RENAN'S "SOUVENIRS D'ENFANCE"
XV LIFE OF FREDERICK ROBERTSON
XVI LIFE OF BARON BUNSEN
XVII COLERIDGE'S MEMOIR OF KEBLE
XVIII MAURICE'S THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS
XIX FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE
XX SIR RICHARD CHURCH
XXI DEATH OF BISHOP WILBERFORCE
XXII RETIREMENT OF THE PROVOST OF ORIEL
XXIII MARK PATTISON
XXIV PATTISON'S ESSAYS
XXV BISHOP FRAZER
XXVI NEWMAN'S "APOLOGIA"
XXVII DR. NEWMAN ON THE "EIRENICON"
XXVIII NEWMAN'S PAROCHIAL SERMONS
XXIX CARDINAL NEWMAN
XXX CARDINAL NEWMAN'S COURSE
XXXI CARDINAL NEWMAN'S NATURALNESS
XXXII LORD BLACHFORD
I
MR. GLADSTONE ON THE ROYAL SUPREMACY[1]
[1] _Remarks on the Royal Supremacy, as it is Defined by Reason, History, and the Constitution_. A Letter to the Lord Bishop of London, by the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P. for the University of Oxford. _Guardian_, 10th July 1850.
Mr. Gladstone has not disappointed the confidence of those who have believed of him that when great occasions presented themselves, of interest to the Church, he would not be found wanting. A statesman has a right to reserve himself and bide his time, and in doubtful circumstances may fairly ask us to trust his discretion as to when is his time. But there are critical seasons about whose seriousness there can be no doubt. One of these is now passing over the English Church. And Mr. Gladstone has recognised it, and borne himself in it with a manliness, earnestness, and temper which justify those who have never despaired of his doing worthy service to the Church, with whose cause he so early identified himself.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Occasional Papers by R. W. Church
- 2: It has two intrinsic advantages
- 3: Or even was expected to concede
- 4: That they were restoring the ancient regal jurisdiction
- 5: The one kind is Jurisdictio coactiva proprie dicta
- 6: Can be executed only as law
- 7: Invoked prerogative against the Church
- 8: As in the case of Parliaments and temporal judges
- 9: Laws ecclesiastical by ecclesiastical judges
- 10: Without encroaching or usurping one upon another
- 11: Were to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction alone
- 12: And if the Churchmen make a mistake in the matter
- 13: As to a purely ecclesiastical Court of Appeal
- 14: They appealed to law from the uncertainty of controversy
- 15: Chaplain to the Bishop of London
- 16: Discipline was limited by the Articles and Formularies
- 17: Against certain theological positions
- 18: To undermine the definiteness and certainty of doctrine
- 19: But the Imperialism of Henry VIII
- 20: Why then are we to invoke the Supremacy as then understood
- 21: On the ground of postures being unimportant
- 22: An English clergyman is authorised to use it
- 23: Whether by an Archbishop's gloss
- 24: Is the question to receive no judicial solution
- 25: It is no mere invention of disappointed partisans
- 26: To our Established clergy more than we can ever repay
- 27: That as Sir John Coleridge also says
- 28: That it has not escaped him that disestablishment
- 29: And the specific English danger
- 30: But there is no haziness about the meaning of disendowment
- 31: And what we can foresee also is
- 32: Other religious organisations hold it
- 33: By virtue of his metropolitical authority and by that alone
- 34: It is hardly too much to say that miracles
- 35: The critical importance of miracles
- 36: With its tremendous negative answer
- 37: Mozley makes a stand on behalf of reason
- 38: It involves constituent miracles
- 39: While a supernatural doctrine
- 40: Miracles and revelation must go together
- 41: Draw aside the interposing veil
- 42: An interpolation in the physical system
- 43: The objection to the miraculous is over
- 44: So far from counting on another recurrence
- 45: For a miracle to be rejected as such
- 46: Or the instinctive generalisation upon this fact
- 47: The inductive principle is omnipotent
- 48: The antecedent objection to the miraculous is not reason
- 49: The antecedent questions about miracles
- 50: We use premisses in either case
- 51: Civilisation is not opposed to faith
- 52: The rationale of the supremacy of a Personal Will in nature
- 53: Mozley shows what has come of them
- 54: And upon that maxim he legislates
- 55: And this key is Christian doctrine
- 56: What is equally beyond dispute
- 57: But the investigation itself
- 58: But whatever we think of it they remain dissatisfied
- 59: Partly careless of Christianity
- 60: To revise its judgments about Jesus Christ
- 61: Renan has tried to draw this picture
- 62: They may map out the chronology of it
- 63: That Christ in describing himself as a king
- 64: And leaves Christ a personage as mythical as Hercules
- 65: Without the belief in miracles
- 66: It is a moral miracle superinduced upon a physical one
- 67: Self denial produced self denial
- 68: The unbounded personal pretensions which Christ advances
- 69: Delighting to call the meanest of mankind his brothers
- 70: From what this writer calls all through an enthusiasm
- 71: Administer reproof to slight lapses
- 72: Christianity is an enthusiasm or it is nothing
- 73: But there are subtler forms of hypocrisy
- 74: Seem to make mere secondary objections intolerable
- 75: If we have misunderstood this book
- 76: By keen and relentless intellect
- 77: From Rapin to Holinshed or Hall
- 78: Robert Elsmere may be true to life
- 79: Unbelief is called upon nowadays
- 80: On the first of these assumptions
- 81: Renan thinks the lasting religion of mankind
- 82: Of douce gaiete et aimables plaisanteries
- 83: On crut naturellement voir en cela un miracle
- 84: Nous aurons le droit d'etre pour eux severes
- 85: Renan has undertaken two tasks of very unequal difficulty
- 86: But we cannot derive Christianity from Christ
- 87: Renan is not bound to believe them
- 88: Elle decida que Jesus ne mourrait pas
- 89: Que la possedee Marie de Magdala
- 90: And the belief in the Resurrection M
- 91: Renan is the most conspicuous example
- 92: Is satisfied with their result
- 93: Renan has Imperial proclivities
- 94: Renan gives of these conditions
- 95: Renan takes great pains to put before us
- 96: Renan sees in the Roman Church
- 97: Instead of leading Polyeucte to punishment
- 98: Sulpice he showed special aptitudes for the study of Hebrew
- 99: Tout est vrai dans ce petit volume
- 100: Il etait pour chacun d'eux l'excitateur toujours present
- 101: Le libre penseur doit etre regle en ses moeurs
- 102: Comme en beaucoup d'autres
- 103: Robertson there is much to admire
- 104: With the pugnacity of a young man
- 105: Robertson's High Church tendencies
- 106: By works of evangelical obedience
- 107: Full of Evangelical formulae and Evangelical narrow zeal
- 108: This seems to have been in 1846
- 109: The Incarnation was to him the centre of all history
- 110: Robertson and the Vicar of Brighton
- 111: Merely that Bunsen was thoughtful and affectionate
- 112: All exists to which the wife of Schelling
- 113: Where Niebuhr was Prussian envoy
- 114: Too ambitious for Bunsen's time and powers
- 115: And the recollections of his biographer
- 116: He resembled Bunsen in more ways than one
- 117: As it indisposes many other able men
- 118: Keble has been fortunate in his biographer
- 119: Keble was very little known to the public in general
- 120: Very little curious about scientific questions and precision
- 121: Or beneficial measures so beneficial
- 122: The discussion was pretty sure to end
- 123: In appreciating a man like Keble
- 124: Purpose in the religious character
- 125: To examine what force there is in Unitarian objections
- 126: That in which those trowings have their only meeting point
- 127: And the Unitarians whom he addresses must
- 128: But discrimination and discovery
- 129: And preserve and illustrate it by disencumbering it
- 130: Of deep reverence for the old language of dogmatic theology
- 131: XXSIR RICHARD CHURCH 23 23 Guardian
- 132: But he clung to the Mediterranean
- 133: Considerable influence out of Greece
- 134: But his presence in Athens was felt everywhere
- 135: And who most adequately fulfilled his own conception of them
- 136: To infuse ardour and enthusiasm and unity into its efforts
- 137: His Archdeacons and Rural Deans
- 138: The eminence of the Provost of Oriel is of another kind
- 139: And the times shaped the course of the Provost of Oriel
- 140: XXIIIMARK PATTISON 27 27 Guardian
- 141: In the higher competition for Fellowships
- 142: Pattison had no vulgar standard of what knowledge is
- 143: Pattison is usually fair in details
- 144: Calvinism opposed the Catholic reaction point blank
- 145: It first breaks Calas on the wheel
- 146: He can appreciate their enormous learning
- 147: Pattison had intended a companion volume to his Casaubon
- 148: He was as original as Bishop Wilberforce
- 149: In spite of his popular qualities
- 150: XXVINEWMAN'S APOLOGIA 30 30 Apologia pro Vita Sua
- 151: However irreconcilably opposed to him
- 152: The intellectual movement of modern times
- 153: Carried him away from Anglicanism
- 154: It was not refined enough for him
- 155: Which infallibility was intended to counteract
- 156: Has consolidated an organisation
- 157: ' The Archbishop of Westminster
- 158: To the singular influence which
- 159: And we cannot quarrel with him
- 160: When he comes to discuss the Eirenicon
- 161: Pusey has given from Roman Catholic writers
- 162: But Bishop Hay was a sort of symbol
- 163: Extravagant enough in themselves
- 164: But the mind of the Pontiff
- 165: If this vast system is a crux to any one
- 166: Besides defining the Immaculate Conception
- 167: And Tertullian copies from him
- 168: Of which the Virgin Mother is the type
- 169: In the manifold development of devotion in his communion
- 170: The special characters of some of the writers quoted
- 171: Or the scandalum Pharisaeorum
- 172: Newman suggests such a ground in the following remarks
- 173: Newman to put his case in this broad way
- 174: Robertson was a great preacher
- 175: And loathing clap trap as they loathed loose argument
- 176: Real negligence means at bottom bad work
- 177: And we do not feel what they had to counteract
- 178: The sermons reflect with merciless force the popular
- 179: The doctrine being once admitted
- 180: They are also intensely dogmatic
- 181: And of our own nothingness
- 182: XXIXCARDINAL NEWMAN 33 33 Guardian
- 183: Challenging not in vain the sympathy of his countrymen
- 184: And of his motto Cor ad cor loquitur
- 185: XXXCARDINAL NEWMAN'S COURSE 34 34 Guardian
- 186: And its accomplice in secularity
- 187: There like the New Testament or even the first ages now
- 188: He republished his Oxford sermons and treatises
- 189: XXXICARDINAL NEWMAN'S NATURALNESS 35 35 Guardian
- 190: XXXIILORD BLACHFORD 36 36 Guardian
- 191: Times which strained even that friendship
- 192: When he named Sir Frederic Rogers for a peerage
