Remarks upon the First Report of the Royal Commission on Ritual in Connection

Mayow, Mayow Wynell, 1810-1895Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 2.1
Word count
100K words
Chapters
11

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English Originals Religion Social CritiqueAcademic StudyIntellectual CommentaryDocumentary NarrativeSocial ObservationVictorian Era

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. Remarks upon the First Report of the Royal Commission on Ritual in connection. Author: Mayow, Mayow Wynell, 1810-1895. Language: English. Class: BX: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Churches, Church movements. Release Date: Jun 5, 2015

Editor's review

This book is a historical document from the internal Anglican debate over liturgical reform, in which Mayow Wynell Mayow responds to the first report of the Royal Commission on Ritual. Its value lies not in offering a systematic theology of liturgy but in preserving a specific site of controversy: how a participant examined the report's claims one by one, what authorities he cited, and what church position he held. For readers studying nineteenth-century British religious history, the Anglican liturgical movement, and church-state relations, pamphlets of this kind often convey the vocabulary, tone, and points of disagreement of the debate more vividly than later overviews. This is a public-domain electronic edition from Project Gutenberg, with the main text in English, suited to searching and citation rather than continuous reading. Readers are advised to first familiarize themselves with the background of the Royal Commission on Ritual and the main points of its report before turning to the author's specific response, so as to judge the relevance and limits of his argument. Overall, this is primary material for specialist readers, of greater scholarly reference value than general reading interest.

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  1. First consult the background and main points of controversy of the Royal Commission on Ritual's first report, then read the author's response.
  2. Read mainly by searching, locating the author's specific rebuttals to particular clauses of the report by topic.
  3. Note the church canons and precedents the author cites as you read, for later verification.
  4. Read alongside other contemporary pamphlets on the liturgical controversy to observe differences in wording across positions.

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FAQ

Is this book a complete work or a polemical pamphlet? Judging from the title and length, it is a response by the author to the first report of the Royal Commission on Ritual—a document of a polemical pamphlet nature rather than a systematic treatise on liturgy, and it should be understood in its controversial context.
What background knowledge is needed before reading? It is advisable to first understand the nineteenth-century internal Anglican debate over liturgical practice, the reasons for establishing the Royal Commission on Ritual, and the basic content of its first report; otherwise it is difficult to grasp the specific target of the author's response.
What are the practical features of this electronic edition? This is a public-domain English electronic text released by Project Gutenberg, convenient for full-text searching, excerpting, and citation, and suited to research use; but it lacks modern translation notes and an introduction, so readers need to supplement the background material themselves.

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About the author

Mayow, Mayow Wynell, 1810-1895 Author

Mayow Wynell Mayow (1810-1895) was a nineteenth-century English clergyman and religious controversialist; public information about him is limited, and details of his life are largely unavailable. Five of his works are held here, all centering on liturgical and doctrinal disputes within the Church of England. They include A Second Letter to the Rev. William Maskell, M.A. and A Letter to the Rev. William Maskell, A.M., which engage his opponent publicly in epistolary form; Remarks upon the First Report of the Royal Commission on Ritual in connection, a critical commentary on the commission's report; Eight Sermons on the Priesthood, Altar, and Sacrifice, sermons treating theological themes of ministry, altar, and sacrifice; and Marriage with a deceased wife's sister, addressing a then highly contested question of marriage law. His writings are chiefly polemical pamphlets and sermons, direct in style and grounded in doctrinal and institutional texts, reflecting the religious controversies of Victorian England.