Controversial Literature: Day II

Today's work: Sermons, tracts, some lectures, a deconversion narrative.

Best-known authors: John Angell James; Hugh Stowell. 

Running themes: Roman Catholicism as the religion of human nature; the Papal Aggression; Tractarianism; necessity of remembering the Reformation.

Title of the day: An Ironicon (response to Pusey's Eirenicon).

Miscalculation Award II: "Nemesis" calculated that Roman Catholicism would collapse in 1866. 

Bored Dissenter Award: On the Papal Aggression: "I observe, secondly, that as a mere matter of offence, it is really of no moment, and that the most dignified course is to bear it with Christian meekness."  (John Howard Hinton)