Author: Walter Howard Frere

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-21

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781333303570

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Excerpt from The Relation of Church and Parliament in Regard to Ecclesiastical Discipline The delicate adjustment of the relations between Church and State is at all times a difficult task, and one that is very liable to the mishandling that comes from ignorance or prejudice or from confusion of thought. There come periods in history when these relations are barely, if at all, matters of discussion or of public interest; and again there come times of disputation, strain, and tension, when they excite great interest, and stir some of the strongest passions of man. Those times of tension and discussion are not by any means necessarily times also of change or readjustment; indeed, some of the chief changes and developments in the relations of Church and State have come about in the torpid periods when alterations excited no interest and met with no opposition, or when slackness and decadence have been allowed to effect an unobserved transformation. But if tension is not necessarily the herald of change, it calls upon thoughtful people to clear their minds, to brush up their facts, to scrutinize their terminology, and to verify their postulates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Relation of Church and Parliament in Regard to Ecclesiastical Discipline (Classic Reprint) written by Walter Howard Frere and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Relation of Church and Parliament in Regard to Ecclesiastical Discipline The delicate adjustment of the relations between Church and State is at all times a difficult task, and one that is very liable to the mishandling that comes from ignorance or prejudice or from confusion of thought. There come periods in history when these relations are barely, if at all, matters of discussion or of public interest; and again there come times of disputation, strain, and tension, when they excite great interest, and stir some of the strongest passions of man. Those times of tension and discussion are not by any means necessarily times also of change or readjustment; indeed, some of the chief changes and developments in the relations of Church and State have come about in the torpid periods when alterations excited no interest and met with no opposition, or when slackness and decadence have been allowed to effect an unobserved transformation. But if tension is not necessarily the herald of change, it calls upon thoughtful people to clear their minds, to brush up their facts, to scrutinize their terminology, and to verify their postulates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.