Oxford Movement
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The Oxford Movement was a movement of
The movement's philosophy was known as Tractarianism after its series of publications, the
Origins and early period
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In the early nineteenth century, many of the
The immediate impetus for the Tractarian movement was a perceived attack by the
The
The Tractarians postulated the
Publications
Apart from the Tracts for the Times, the group began a collection of translations of the
Influence and criticism
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The Oxford Movement was criticised as being a mere "Romanising" tendency, but it began to influence the theory and practice of Anglicanism more broadly, spreading to cities such as Bristol during the 1840s-50s.[6] The Oxford Movement was also criticised as both secretive and collusive.[7]
The Oxford Movement resulted in the establishment of
Many of the Tractarian priests began working in
Gu Hongming, an early twentieth century Chinese author, used the concept of the Oxford Movement to argue for a return to traditional Confucianism in China.[8]
End of Newman's involvement and receptions into Roman Catholicism
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One of the principal writers and proponents of Tractarianism was
I saw indeed clearly that my place in the Movement was lost; public confidence was at an end; my occupation was gone. It was simply an impossibility that I could say any thing henceforth to good effect, when I had been posted up by the marshal on the buttery-hatch of every College of my University, after the manner of discommoned pastry-cooks, and when in every part of the country and every class of society, through every organ and opportunity of opinion, in newspapers, in periodicals, at meetings, in pulpits, at dinner-tables, in coffee-rooms, in railway carriages, I was denounced as a traitor who had laid his train and was detected in the very act of firing it against the time-honoured Establishment.[10]
Newman was one of a number of Anglican clergy who were received into the Roman Catholic Church during the 1840s who were either members of, or were influenced by, Tractarianism.
Other people influenced by Tractarianism who became Roman Catholics included:
- Thomas William Allies, ecclesiastical historian and Anglican priest.
- Edward Badeley, ecclesiastical lawyer.
- Robert Hugh Benson, son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, novelist and monsignor.
- John Chapman, patristic scholar and Roman Catholic priest.
- Augusta Theodosia Drane, writer and Dominican prioress.
- Edgar Edmund Estcourt, canon of St. Chad's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Birmingham.
- Cecil Chetwynd Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian, church founder and philanthropist.
- Frederick William Faber, theologian, hymn writer, Oratorian and Roman Catholic priest.
- Robert Stephen Hawker, poet and Anglican priest (became a Roman Catholic on his deathbed).
- James Hope-Scott, barrister and Tractarian (received with Manning).
- Jesuitpriest.
- Ronald Knox, Biblical text translator and Anglican priest.
- Thomas Cooper Makinson, Anglican priest.
- Henry Edward Manning, later Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster.
- St. George Jackson Mivart, biologist (later interdicted by Cardinal Herbert Vaughan).
- John Brande Morris, Orientalist, eccentric and Roman Catholic priest.
- Augustus Pugin, architect.
- Richard Sibthorp, Anglican and Roman Catholic priest (the first to convert, in 1841; later reconverted to Anglicanism)
- William Gowan Todd, Roman Catholic priest
- William George Ward, theologian.
Others associated with Tractarianism
- Edward Burne-Jones
- Richard William Church
- Margaret Anna Cusack
- George Anthony Denison
- Philip Egerton
- Alexander Penrose Forbes
- William Ewart Gladstone
- George Cornelius Gorham
- Renn Dickson Hampden
- Walter Farquhar Hook
- William Lockhart
- John Medley
- James Bowling Mozley
- Thomas Mozley
- John Mason Neale
- Frederick Ouseley
- William Upton Richards
- Christina Rossetti
- Lord Salisbury
- James Henthorn Todd
- Nathaniel Woodard
- Charlotte Mary Yonge
See also
- Anglican Breviary
- Anglican Communion
- Cambridge Camden Society
- Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament
- Guild of All Souls
- Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology
- Neo-Lutheranism
- Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
- Society of the Holy Cross
- Society of King Charles the Martyr
- Society of Mary (Anglican)
- Crypto-papism
References
- ^ "The Church of England (the Anglican Church)". victorianweb.org. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
- ^ Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Oxford movement". Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Aug. 2020
- ^ a b "Oxford Movement, The", The Episcopal Church
- ^ Shelley, Bruce L. (2013). Church History in Plain Language. p. 387.
- ^ "A Short History of the Oxford Movement". Mocavo. Archived from the original on 26 December 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
- ^ Cobb, Peter G. (1988). The Oxford Movement in Nineteenth-Century Bristol. Brisol: Bristol Historical Association.
- ^ Walsh, Walter (1899). The Secret History of the Oxford Movement (5th ed.). London Church Association.
- ^ The Story of a Chinese Oxford Movement.
- ISBN 0-85244-632-2.
- ^ "The Tractarian Movement". victorianweb.org. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
Further reading
- Bexell, Oloph, "The Oxford Movement as received in Sweden." Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift. Publications of the Swedish Society of Church History 1:106 (2006).
- Brown, Stewart J. & Nockles, Peter B. ed. The Oxford Movement: Europe and the Wider World 1830–1930, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Burgon, John, Lives of Twelve Good Men. Includes biography of Charles Marriott.
- Chadwick, Owen. Mind of the Oxford Movement, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1960.
- Church, R. W., The Oxford Movement: Twelve Years, 1835–1845, ed. and with an introd. by Geoffrey Best, in series, Classics of British Historical Literature, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. xxxii, [2], 280 p. ISBN 0-226-10619-5(pbk.)
- Church, R. W. The Oxford Movement: Twelve Years, 1833–1845, London: Macmillan & Co., 1891.
- Crumb, Lawrence N. The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders: a bibliography of secondary and lesser primary sources. (ATLA Bibliography Series, 56). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009.
- Dearing, Trevor Wesleyan and Tractarian Worship. London: Epworth Press, 1966.
- Dilworth-Harrison, T. Every Man's Story of the Oxford Movement. London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., 1932.
- Faught, C. Brad. The Oxford Movement: a thematic history of the Tractarians and their times, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-271-02249-9
- Halifax, Charles Lindley Wood, Viscount, The Agitation Against the Oxford Movement, Office of the English Church Union, 1899.
- Hall, Samuel. A Short History of the Oxford Movement, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1906.
- Herring, George (2016) The Oxford Movement in Practice. Oxford University Press (based on the author's D.Phil. thesis; it examines the Tractarian parochial world from the 1830s to the 1870s)
- Hoppen, K. Theodore. "The Oxford Movement" History Today (Mar 1967) Vol. 17 Issue 3, p145-152 online
- Hutchison, William G. The Oxford Movement, being a Selection from Tracts for the Times, London: Walter Scott Pub. Co., 1906.
- Kelway, Clifton (1915) The Story of the Catholic Revival. London: Cope & Fenwick
- Kendall, James. "A New Oxford Movement in England," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XXII, 1897.
- Leech, Kenneth & Williams, Rowan (eds) Essays Catholic and Radical: a jubilee group symposium for the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Oxford Movement 1833–1983, London : Bowerdean, 1983ISBN 0-906097-10-X
- Liddon, Henry Parry, Life of E. B. Pusey, 4 vols. London, 1893. The standard history of the Oxford Movement, which quotes extensively from their correspondence, and the source for much written subsequently. The Library of the Fathersis discussed in vol. 1 pp. 420–440. Available on archive.org.
- Norman, Edward R. Church and Society in England 1770–1970: a historical study. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976, ISBN 0-19-826435-6.
- Nockles, Peter B. The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship 1760–1857. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- Nockles, Peter B., "The Oxford Movement and its historiographers. Brilioth's 'Anglican Revival' and 'Three Lectures on Evangelicalism and The Oxford Movement' revisited." Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift. Publications of the Swedish Society of Church History 1:106 (2006).
- Nye, George Henry Frederick. The Story of the Oxford Movement: A Book for the Times, Bemrose, 1899.
- Ollard, S. L. A Short History of the Oxford Movement, A. R. Mowbray & Co., 1915.
- Pereiro, J. 'Ethos' and the Oxford Movement: At the Heart of Tractarianism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Pfaff, Richard W. "The Library of the Fathers: the Tractarians as Patristic translators," Studies in Philology; 70 (1973), p. 333ff.
- Skinner, S. A. Tractarians and the Condition of England: the social and political thought of the Oxford Movement. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004.
- Wakeling, G. The Oxford Church Movement: Sketches and Recollections, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1895.
- Walworth, Clarence A. The Oxford Movement in America. New York: United States Catholic Historical Society, 1974 (Reprint of the 1895 ed. published by the Catholic Book Exchange, New York).
- Ward, Wilfrid. The Oxford Movement, T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1912.
- Webb, Clement Charles Julian. Religious Thought in the Oxford Movement, London: Macmillan, 1928.
External links
- Tractarianism (Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge)
- The Oxford Movement. BBC Radio 4 discussion with Sheridan Gilley, Frances Knight & Simon Skinner (In Our Time, Apr 13, 2006)