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The Fantasy of Reunion: The Rise and Fall of the Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2007

MARK D. CHAPMAN
MARK D. CHAPMAN
Affiliation:
Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxford OX44 9EX; e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper traces the history of the Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom, one of the most successful of the eccentric and idiosyncratic private ecumenical initiatives of the mid-nineteenth century. The principal motivation behind the venture was a Romantic medievalism inspired by the lay Roman Catholic Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle and the Anglican ritualist priest, Frederick George Lee. While initially attracting widespread support, the leaders failed to recognise the power of vested interests in both Churches. After a vigorous denunciation by Henry Manning, the hopes of reunion proved to be little more than a dream.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 49 - 74
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

An earlier version of this paper was given as a lecture to the Anglo-Catholic History Society. I am grateful to the Revd Dr Perry Butler for the invitation, and to Fr James Pereiro, chaplain of Grandpont House, Oxford, for his comments on an earlier draft.