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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The setting for the coming struggles -- The decay of the Evangelical party in the Church of England -- The waning of the nonconformist spirit -- The high church on the way to ascendency -- Truth, freedom, and the fratricide of the Orthodox -- The diffusive religion of the late Victorians -- Alternatives to Christianity -- Conclusions…”

“…The Tractarians were conscious from the first of how far their ethos distinguished them from the High Church party, with whom they shared much common doctrinal ground. …”
Sumario

“…These chapters include studies of the legacy of the seventeenth-century 'Caroline Divines' and of the nature and influence of the eighteenth and early nineteenth-century High Church movement within the Church of England. Part II focuses on the beginnings and early years of the Oxford Movement, paying particular attention to the people, the distinctive Oxford context, and the ecclesiastical controversies that inspired the birth of the Movement and its early intellectual and religious expressions. …”

“…Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.[4][6] Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, his "friendly enemy", said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius…”