caa a22 4500 38805753X CHVBK 20180307125111.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0034193200002478 doi S0034193200002478 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0034193200002478 Nockles Peter B. ‘The Difficulties of Protestantism': Bishop Milner, John Fletcher and Catholic Apologetic against the Church of England in the era from the First Relief Act to Emancipation, 1778-1830 [Elektronische Daten] [Peter B. Nockles] ‘It is an old theory of ours, that there are very few of the positions assumed by the antagonists of the Catholic church, which may not be turned against each other, with far more effect than they carry against the common adversary whom they all seek to assail. A skilful use of the weapons employed against each other by various sects of Protestantism, in their internecine warfare, would supply one of the most curious, and we will venture to say, one of the most solid and convincing arguments of the truth of the Catholic religion to be found in the whole range of polemical literature'. (Dublin Review, 1855). Anti-Catholicism, represented in the era of the eve of Emancipation by a rich genre of polemical literature focusing on the supposed ‘difficulties of Romanism', has been the subject of much recent study; notably for the eighteenth century by Colin Haydon, and for the nineteenth, by Walter Amstein, Edward Norman, D. G. Paz, Walter Ralls, F. M. Wallis and John Wolffe. In contrast, English Catholic controversial writing against the Church of England, focusing on what one Catholic writer (in a conscious reversal of the stock Anglican polemical title) called the ‘difficulties of Protestantism', with notable exceptions such as Sheridan Gilley, Leo Gooch and Brian Carter, 5 has been comparatively neglected for the half century prior to the dawn of the Oxford Movement in 1833. Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1973 Recusant History Cambridge University Press 24/2(1998-10), 193-236 0034-1932 24:2<193 1998 24 BCH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034193200002478 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034193200002478 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nockles Peter B. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Recusant History Cambridge University Press 24/2(1998-10), 193-236 0034-1932 24:2<193 1998 24 BCH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge