'Not fortunate in passing through Mr. Keble's hands': Keble's misuse of Taylor on 'eucharistic adoration'

Many an admiring reader of the "Christian Year" heard with regret that the author of it had written his last work, "On Eucharistical Adoration," with the object of defending the worship of Christ's Body and Blood in the Eucharist, or of His Humanity present there. By these expressions we have to hope that he means no more than the worship of Christ Himself present, for, in truth, they have a rather Nestorian savour. In The Teaching of the Anglican Divines in the Time of King James I and King Charles I on the Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist (1858), Henry Charles Groves - a clergyman of the Church of Ireland - gave expression to the Old High lament that the traditional High Church parson of The Christian Year had become the Tractarian of On Eucharistical Adoration . The radical change in Eucharistic theology between these two works - from the Virtualism of the former to the explicit rejection of Hooker in the latter - is itself an indicator of the rupture occasi...