The publication of the Fourth Report of the Ritual Commission in 1870 occasioned intense debate over the position of the Athanasian Creed in the liturgy of the Church of England. This article reconstructs the course of that controversy, focusing particularly on the centrality of historical argument to the speeches, letters, and pamphlets in which critics and defenders of the formulary sought to stabilise Christian orthodoxy and define Anglican identity in a progressive environment. The episode draws attention, first, to the continuing and underestimated centrality of patristic scholarship to questions of church reform in Victorian England, whilst also pointing towards the eventual decline of the textual and antiquarian approach to apologetics that had characterised Anglicanism since the Reformation. Post-Reformation Anglican history, secondly, was itself integral to participants’ articulation of religious division, suggesting that conventional understandings of “church parties” in the Victorian Church of England should accordingly be revised.

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亚他那修时代

1870年《仪式委员会第四次报告》的发表引起了关于阿塔那修信条在英格兰教堂礼拜仪式中地位的激烈辩论。本文重构了这场争论的过程，特别着重于历史论证在演讲，信件和小册子上的中心地位，在该论点中，批评家和惯例的捍卫者试图在渐进的环境中稳定基督教正统派并定义英国国教徒的身份。首先，这一集引起人们的注意，即在维多利亚时代的英格兰，教父奖学金在教会改革问题上的持续和被低估的中心地位，同时也指出了自改革以来一直以英国国教为特征的道歉和古物论方法对现代主义的最终拒绝。改革后的英国国教历史，其次，