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William Palmer - The Oxford Movement and a Quest for Orthodoxy (Paperback)
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William Palmer - The Oxford Movement and a Quest for Orthodoxy (Paperback)
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The Oxford Movement within the Anglican communion sought changes to
the Church of England in its articulation of theology and
performance of liturgy that would more clearly demonstrate what the
movement's members believed was the place of their Church within
the wider universal and ancient Church. In this regard they mostly
looked to the Roman Catholic Church, but one of their most
prominent members thought their goals would be better served by
seeking recognition from the Orthodox Church. This book charts the
eccentric career of that member, William Palmer, a fellow of
Magdalen College and deacon of the Anglican Church. Seemingly
destined for a conventional life as a classics don at Oxford, in
1840 and 1842 he travelled to Russia to seek communion from the
Russian Orthodox Church. He sought their affirmation that the
Anglican Church was part of the ancient Catholic and Apostolic
Church world-wide. Despite their personal regard for him, the
Russians remained unconvinced by his arguments, not least because
of the actions of the Anglican hierarchy in forming alliances with
other Protestant bodies. Palmer in turn wrestled with what he saw
as the logical inconsistencies in the claim of the Orthodox to be
the one true church, such as the differing views he encountered on
the manner of reception of converts into the Church by either
baptism and chrismation or the latter alone. Increasingly
disillusioned with the Church of England, and finding himself
without support from the Scottish Episcopal Church, Palmer closest
Russian friends such as Mouravieff and Khomiakoff urged him to cast
aside his reservations and to convert Orthodoxy. Ultimately he
baulked at making what he saw as the cultural leap from West to
East, and after some years in ecclesiastical limbo, he followed the
example of his Oxford friends such as John Henry Newman, and was
received into the Roman Catholic Church in Rome in 1855. He lived
in Rome as a Catholic layman until his death in 1879. This is a
fascinating account of a failed "journey to Orthodoxy" that should
provide food for thought to all who may follow this path in the
future and offer grounds for reflection to Orthodox believers on
how to remove unnecessary stumbling blocks that can arise on the
path to their Church.
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