Well over a century and a half after its high point, the Oxford
Movement continues to stand out as a powerful example of religion
in action. Led by four young Oxford dons--John Henry Newman, John
Keble, Richard Hurrell Froude, and Edward Pusey--this renewal
movement within the Church of England was a central event in the
political, religious, and social life of the early Victorian era.
This book offers an up-to-date and highly accessible overview of
the Oxford Movement.
Beginning formally in 1833 with John Keble's famous "National
Apostasy" sermon and lasting until 1845, when Newman made his
celebrated conversion to Roman Catholicism, the Oxford Movement
posed deep and far-reaching questions about the relationship
between Church and State, the Catholic heritage of the Church of
England, and the Church's social responsibility, especially in the
new industrial society. The four scholar-priests, who came to be
known as the Tractarians (in reference to their publication of
Tracts for the Times), courted controversy as they attacked the
State for its insidious incursions onto sacred Church ground and
summoned the clergy to be a thorn in the side of the
government.
C. Brad Faught approaches the movement thematically,
highlighting five key areas in which the movement affected English
society more broadly--politics, religion and theology, friendship,
society, and missions. The advantage of this thematic approach is
that it illuminates the frequently overlooked wider political,
social, and cultural impact of the movement. The questions raised
by the Tractarians remain as relevant today as they were then.
Their most fundamental question--"What is the place of the Church
in the modern world?"--still remains unanswered.
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