Abstract
This chapter explores the increase of ritualist activity in Anglican parishes in the thirty years following the passing of the Public Worship Regulation Act of 1874. It examines the effect that Tractarian theology and ritualist practice had on how some Anglican High–Churchmen viewed their relations with the Roman Catholic Church and sought practical ways of implementing reunion schemes. It takes account of ritualist innovations in other Protestant churches in Britain, which could hardly be expected to be unaffected by the developments in Anglican ones. By the 1890s, the failure to prevent the spread of ritualist practices within the Church of England and beyond it led to what has been termed the ‘Crisis in the Church’ and eventually to the setting up of a Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline. This chapter also looks at ritualism in the parishes between 1875 and 1904, along with ritualism in Protestant dissent and the Church of Scotland.
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