Lord Acton and the Liberal Catholic Movement, 1858-1875
Description:
John Dalberg Acton, a German-educated historian, rose to prominence in late Victorian England is an editor of The Rambler and a leader of the Liberal Catholic Movement. His struggle against Ultramontanism reached its climax at the Vatican Council, 1869-1870, which endorsed the dogma of Papal Infallibility and effectively ended the Liberal Catholic Movement. Acton's position on the Vatican Decrees remained equivocal until the Gladstone controversy of 1874 forced him to take a stand, but even his…
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Date:
December 1987
Creator:
Shuttlesworth, William T. (William Theron)
Partner:
UNT Libraries