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mote and encourage actions furthering Reunion.”3 The nuance in the
terminology of the two Associations is important, and re?ects the
growth in self-con?dence during the period of those who sought formal
relations of intercommunion between the Church of England and the
Orthodox Churches.

Drawing on this greater knowledge of the Orthodox Churches
within the Church of England, and utilising the existence of one of the
monastic orders for men, the Society of St John the Evangelist, the An-
glican and Eastern-Orthodox Churches Union sponsored the lectures of
Frederick William Puller, SSJE, in St Petersburg in 1913. The lectures,
The Continuity of the Church of England Before and after its Reformation in the
Sixteenth Century, With Some account of its Present Condition, were published
later that year, and gave impetus to this cause.4 Puller referred explicitly
to the revival of religious life for men and women in the Church of Eng-
land under the in?uence of the Oxford movement and Tractarians when
he was presenting the Church of England in a series of lectures in St
Petersburg.

“For three hundred years, the monastic life in all its forms
was stamped out of the church of England, not by any ac-
tion of the Church, but by the sacrilegious act of a tyran-
nous King. But one of the results of the Oxford movement
was to give back to our Church that dedicated life of chas-
tity, poverty, and obedience, of which she had been so wick-
edly robbed.”5

The di?erence between this school of thought and theology, and
those who believed that closer relations between Anglicans and Eastern
Orthodox were neither achievable nor desirable was also to be played
out at successive Lambeth Conferences. Both societies were to con-

3 Anglican and Eastern Churches Association Archives, deposited in Lambeth Palace Library, Janu-
ary 2008.
4 See F. W. Puller, The Continuity of the Church of England Before and after its Reformation in the Sixteenth
Century, With Some account of its Present Condition (London: Longmans, 1913).
5 Ibid., pp. 100-101.

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