The Oxford Movement

by Brown, Stewart J.; Nockles, Peter B.

• ISBN13: 9781107016446
• ISBN10: 1107016444
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-30
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

The Oxford Movement transformed the nineteenth-century Church of England with a renewed conception of itself as a spiritual body. Initiated in the early 1830s by members of the University of Oxford, it was a response to threats to the established church posed by British Dissenters, Irish Catholics, Whig and Radical politicians, and the predominant evangelical ethos – what Newman called 'the religion of the day'. The Tractarians believed they were not simply addressing difficulties within their national Church, but recovering universal principles of the Christian faith. To what extent were their beliefs and ideals communicated globally? Was missionary activity the product of the movement's distinctive principles? Did their understanding of the Church promote, or inhibit, closer relations among the churches of the global Anglican Communion? This volume addresses these questions and more with a series of case studies involving Europe and the English-speaking world during the first century of the Movement.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors

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Introduction

The Oxford Movement in an Oxford college: Oriel as the cradle of Tractarianism

Beyond England: The Oxford Movement in Britain, the Empire and the United States

Isaac Williams and Welsh Tractarian theology

Scotland and the Oxford Movement

The Oxford Movement and the British Empire: Newman, Manning and the 1841 Jerusalem Bishopric

The Australian Bishops and the Oxford Movement

Anglo-Catholicism in Australia, c.1860-1960

The Oxford Movement and the United States

The Oxford Movement and Continental Europe

Europe and the Oxford Movement

Pusey, Tholuck and the reception of the Oxford Movement in Germany

The Oxford Movement: reception and perception in Catholic circles in nineteenth-century Belgium

'Separated brethren': French Catholics and the Oxford Movement

The Oxford Movement, Jerusalem and the Eastern question

Ignaz von Döllinger and the Anglicans

Anglicans, Old Catholics and Reformed Catholics in late nineteenth-century Europe

Index

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