“Puseyism” “No Popery.”
Boston: Dutton & Wentworth, 1843. Anonymous [Doane, George Washington]
“Puseyism” “No Popery.”, Boston: Dutton & Wentworth, 1843
9 x 5.25 inches, 72 pp., Printed wrappers
Front wrap moderately soiled and chipped with a brief contemporary numerical notation, rear detached. Penciled “George Washington Doane” to last page which also has a two inch tear affecting a few sentences of text. Scattered foxing and stains. Good.
An interesting treatise on Puseyism penned anonymously by the second bishop in the Episcopal Church for the Diocese of New Jersey.
"Puseyism" refers to a theological movement within the Church of England, specifically associated with the teachings of Edward Pusey, advocating for a return to high church practices and rituals. This was seen as having a lean towards Catholicism. "No Popery" is a historical anti-Catholic slogan, expressing strong opposition to the influence of the Catholic Church, and was often used to criticize practices considered too Catholic-like.
George Washington Doane was born in 1799 and served as bishop of New Jersey from 1832 to his death in 1859. In 1837, he founded St. Mary's Hall (now Doane Academy), to provide a classical education for girls. It was the first such boarding school for girls in the United States. In 1846 he founded Burlington College, a school for boys. He also wrote well-known hymns, and published a volume of poems, Songs by the Way, in 1824.
In 1843 Doane published this anonymous booklet, combining in the title the derogatory term for the movement with a traditional anti-Roman Catholic slogan, used here out of context. An appendix (p. [69]-72) features “Mr. Perceval's Letter To the Editor of the Irish Ecclesiastical Journal” signed Arthur P. Perceval, “Formerly of Oriel, now of All Souls’ College, Oxford” and an “Advertisement” at the front of the work identifies the Bishop of New Jersey as the author.
OCLC shows 26 holdings, predominantly at seminaries. Item #1861
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