ABSTRACT
In 1906, the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline released its report, another General Election occurred, and debate again surrounded an Education Bill. The theoretical compromise laid out by the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline wound up favoring the Anglo-Catholics in practice and consequently took considerable steam out of the Protestant Party. Hastings has argued that prior to the twentieth century, establishment seemed to necessitate Erastianism. But by demonstrating that the theological independence of a church did not necessarily entail disestablishment and that establishment did not necessarily entail Erastianism. Popular and parliamentary support for legislative solutions to the Church Crisis diminished largely because the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline had finally issued its report on July 3, 1906. In 1906, as the Scottish controversy faded, the report of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline appeared just following the Liberal victory in the General Election.
