Samuel Laing
About the Author
Samuel Laing wrote Notes on the Rise, Progress, and Prospects of Schism from the Church of Rome (1845), a contemporary account of the German Catholic movement associated with Johannes Ronge and Johannes Czerski. The book includes an English rendering of the Breslau congregation’s declaration of February 1845.
Source: the 1845 edition, title page and pp. 76–82.
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Notes on the Rise, Progress, and Prospects of Schism from the Church of Rome, Called the German-Catholic Church
Samuel Laing’s contemporary account of the German Catholic movement associated with Johannes Ronge and Johannes Czerski. Published in 1845, it examines the movement’s emergence, principles and prospects and reproduces an English rendering of the Breslau congregation’s declaration of 16 February 1845.
The full title continues: “Instituted by Johannes Ronge and I. Czerzki in October 1844, on Occasion of the Pilgrimage to the Holy Coat at Treves.” Complete main text, followed by publisher advertisements. The English declaration is a historical translation with textual differences from the German witness.
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