The Church Association Tracts from 1860 to 1918; J. T. Tomlinson's Collected Tracts on Ritual and Other Writings

The Catholic Revival of the nineteenth century provoked a vigorous response from the Church of England's Evangelical wing. This response included the formation of the Church Association and the publication of Church Association Tracts on a variety of issues. The objects of the Church Association were:

To Uphold the Doctrines, Principles, and Order of the United Church of England and Ireland, and to counteract the efforts now being made to pervert her teaching on essential points of the Christian faith, or assimilate her Services to those of the Church of Rome, and further to encourage concerted action for the advancement and progress of spiritual Religion.

A number of the Church Association Tracts are available for download on the Church Society website here and here and those interested in learning about the position of the Church Association on these issues would benefit from reading them. Volumes I-V of the Church Association Tracts are also available on the Internet Archive website here.

J. T. Tomlinson's Collected Tracts on Ritual, Vol. I and Vol II are also available on the Internet Archive website here and here as well as Tomlinson's Queen Elizabeth's Crucifix here and The Prayer Book Articles and Homilies: some forgotten facts in their history which may decide their interpretation here.