CHAPTERS (PRELIMINARY TO A STUDY OF THE ORDINAL) ON THE RATIONALE OF MINISTRY WITH AN APPENDIX UPON ROMAN CRITICISM OF ANGLICAN ORDERS By R. C. MOBERLY, D.D. REGIUS PROFESSOR OF PASTORAL THEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD NEW YORK LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1898 PREFACE PERHAPS it may be convenient to say, first, that the following pages, though not serving as lectures in their present form, have largely grown out of lectures delivered in the Chapter House of Christ Church; and secondly that, as they here stand, they by no means correspond with their original design. They had been meant to form part of a much larger whole. The principal object of the whole would have been a study of the Anglican Ordinal, in the light of the Ordinal forms of the earlier Church. Various circumstances, however, have induced me to offer these pages by themselves, as a sort of introduction to such a study. The first six of the following chapters were intended as an introduction to the whole. The inquiry into the meaning of 'priesthood' would have come at a much later point. It was meant to follow after some sketch of the steps of the gradual growth of the fully developed forms of the Sarum Ordinal, and to have formed one portion or aspect (no doubt the most crucial one) in a consideration of the meaning of the transition |