Religion

[SylviasMotherSaid]

Not sure if this is the right place to post but I read a lot of books set prior to WW1 and I find all the religion stuff so confusing such as High Church and bishops and other things . Can anyone point me in direction of any websites or anywhere where I can get a sort of dummies guide to all the terminology . I understand the main stuff but not familiar with Puseyites and High and Low Church differences .

Maybe you've found something by now. When I read your question I meant to look up Pusey and I didn't get round to it. Just google Pusey and also try googling a sentence like 'What is the difference between high and low church?' Also, look up 'The Oxford Movement'. I think those are the right words. Also, look up the word 'bishops'.

One day a bishop of the Church of England was travelling on the Tube in London, wearing his customary purple top under his jacket. A bishop is a bit up the hierarchy ladder, higher than a vicar of a parish but lower than the 2 archbishops, at least he is in the C of E. A woman was sitting next to him and she turned to him and said, "Are you a vicar?" He said he was. She told him that her brother was having an operation that day and please would the 'vicar' pray for her brother. He said he would, and I'd happily bet that he did. Well, that is nothing about books, so I'll clear off now and look up Pusey.

I’m in Scotland so we just seem to have ministers in my experience of church here which is fairly limited to weddings and funerals . I did go down a google rabbit hole about some stuff but I can’t work out why in some books there’s such a dislike for High Church practices I will read on .
Victorian stuff fascinates me but so much to get my head around about tariffs and Corn laws

This is not too bad, though from 1933. I quite like the added American perspective.
anglicanhistory.org/usa/acb/17.html

And some possible origins from the influence of Luther and contemporaries - if some doctrine is discredited, how much reverence should be given to ritual or authority, and if the Bible doesn't prescribe it, is it ok to do it?

www.gotquestions.org/high-church-low-church.html

I’m in Scotland so we just seem to have ministers in my experience of church

Yeah there's no hierarchy in Presbyterian churches, hence the name, everyone is allowed in the Presbytery. High church in the Anglican church is basically those who still follow a lot of Catholic practices and beliefs whereas low church is a 'truer' Protestantism (but more Luther than Calvin I suspect). That's from an atheist Scot raised in CoS, married to a lapsed Catholic living in England so probably displays one or two prejudices!