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New names for old things: Scottish reaction to early tractarianism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
Extract
Storms are more easily studied in tea-cups than in oceans. Early tractarianism was clearly a storm and the Scottish episcopal church was equally clearly a tea-cup. It is assumed for this study that tractarianism was only one aspect of a wider movement which affected the church of England and Roman Catholicism in similar ways, though it affected the church of Scotland in dissimilar ways. Its basic tenet was that God is holy and cannot be approached directly, or known directly, but only through a cultural screen. This screen, which was also a lens, would extend throughout the world as did Christianity. Its specific form might be gothic architecture or language or any other purely ecclesiastical form of expression. Such forms were essentially a matter of style, and style mattered.
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- Studies in Church History , Volume 14: Renaissance and Renewal in Christian History , 1977 , pp. 329 - 337
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- Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1977
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