Dissertations on Subjects Relating to the "Orthodox" or "Eastern-Catholic" Communion by Palmer, William - 1853

Spine sunned. Bindign edge rubbed. Good. Christian Theology Joseph Masters London 1853 orig. cloth 23x14cm, viii, 336 pp, Several light stains to spine. Bottom edge heavily rubbed. Name inked on flyleaf. An ink-drop stain to one page-margin. William Palmer (1811-1879) ["...an extreme high churchman & a devoted advocate of intercommunion with the Greek & Roman churches; made several unsuccessful attempts to obtain admission to the Greek church without declaring the English church heretical; entered the Roman communion without rebaptism,1855, passing the rest of his life at Rome in retirement..."- Concise DNB,1.]. Contents: Of the distinctive title, present state, & apparent prospects of the "Orthodox" Communion; Of the present apparent conflict between "Orthodoxy" & "Catholicism"; The Aspect of the Russian part of the "Orthodox" Church at the commencement of the Reformation of Luther; being "An Account of the Religion of the Muscovites, written by John Faber for Ferdinand King of the Romans, to whom he was Confessor", A. D. 1525; Destinies of the Slavonic Empire; Probation & Failure of the Tsar Alexis Michaelovich, with the Nobility & Hierarchy of Russia, in the 17th Century; Of Civil Government,Obedience,& Liberty, in relation to Orthodox Christianity; Reflections on the right method of conducting religious controversy; Remarks on the present state of particular controversies between the "Orthodox" & the "Roman-Catholic" Churches; Of the bearing of the Theory of Doctrinal Development on the Controversy between the Orthodox & the Roman-Catholic Churches; On the Controversy Respecting the Procession of the Holy Ghost; Certain Opinions prevalent in the Greek part of the Eastern Orthodox Church respecting Baptism; Translation of a Memorial presented to the Patriarch of Constantinople...1851; 4 Documents,3