The Fantasy of Reunion

This book presents a pre-history of Ecumenism. It discusses the different understandings of 'catholicity' that emerged in the interactions between the Church of England and other churches, particularly the Roman Catholic Church and later the Old Catholic Churches, from the early 1830s to the early 1880s.

Mark Chapman is Vice-Principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon and Reader in Modern Theology in the University of Oxford. He has written widely on the history and theology of Anglicanism as well as in Church History and political Theology. He is also assistant priest in three rural Church of England parishes. He is a member of the General Synod of the Church of England.

- Introduction
- 1: The Oxford Movement and Ecumenism
- 2: Romantic Ecumenism
- 3: Doctrinal Ecumenism: Pusey, Newman, and the first Eirenicon
- 4: Pusey, Newman, and the end of a healthful Reunion : The Second and Third Volumes of Pusey s Eirenicon
- 5: An ecumenical front against liberalism: Bishop Alexander Penrose Forbes of Brechin and An Explanation of the Thirty-nine Articles
- 6: Forbes, Pusey and the First Vatican Council
- 7: Forbes, Victor De Buck and the Progress of the Council
- 8: Redefining Ecumenism in the 1870s
- 9: Henry Liddon and the Bonn Conferences
- 10: Eduard Herzog and the Anglo-American Church
- Epilogue
- Bibliography