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  §1. Keble. XII. The Oxford Movement. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge History of English and American ...
At the age of the reformation, at the time of the Laudian movement under Charles I and in the time of the later Caroline divines, religious literature occupied a prominent, sometimes a commanding, position in the eyes of all who were alive to the currents of public life.
But, none the less, the Oxford movement, as it came to be called, formed a most important epoch in literature: yet, for a long while it stood apart, as philosophy commonly does, from the ordinary work of men who wrote and men who read.
Yet, it is impossible to study the Oxford movement without seeing that it was essentially one with the romantic movement which had re-created the literature of Germany and France.
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  Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census).
In the 19th century the controversy surrounding the Oxford Movement in the Anglican Church drew attention to the city as a focus of theological thought.
Oxford's Town Hall was built by Henry T. Hare, the foundation stone was laid on 6 July 1893 and opened by the future King Edward VII on 12 May 1897.
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 Oxford Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Oxford Movement was a loose affiliation of High Church Anglicans, most of them members of the University of Oxford, who sought to demonstrate that the Church of England was a direct descendant of the Christian church established by the Apostles.
It was also known as the Tractarian Movement after its series of publications, Tracts for the Times (1833–1841); the Tractarians were also called Puseyites (usually disparagingly) after one of their leaders, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Christ Church, Oxford.
The immediate impetus for the Movement was the secularisation of the Church, focused particularly on the decision by the Government to reduce by ten the number of Irish seats following the 1832 Reform Act.
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 Oxford movement. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Within the movement itself, a Romanizing party developed under William George Ward, Frederick William Faber and others, and it was partly to counter them that Newman wrote his celebrated Tract 90 on the Thirty-nine Articles, which aroused a storm of opposition and brought the series to an end (1841).
The movement to Roman Catholicism was opposed by Pusey, under whose leadership the majority remained loyal to the Church of England.
The Oxford movement also stressed higher standards of worship, and particularly in the later period many changes were made in the church services, e.g., beautification of churches, intonation of services, the wearing of vestments, and emphasis on hymn singing.
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 High Church: Tractarianism
The suspicion that while at Oxford he had not been honest about his beliefs or at least not about the direction they were leading him came out into the open in 1864 and lead him to write his Apologia pro vita sua, a spiritual autobiography which, remarkably, reversed public opinion of him.
The Ecclesiological movement, which wanted more ritual and religious decoration in churches and which closely associated with the Gothic Revival, was a natural partner to Tractarianism, for both movements looked back to the Middle Ages as a time when the Church met the needs of its parishioners both religiously and aesthetically.
These movements had some influence upon the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which also looked back to Raphael and his medieval precursors for their artistic inspiration.
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 OxfordMovement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This paper will conclude that the Oxford Movement's claim of acting as the via-media was disingenuous, and that the movement was nothing less than a Roman Catholic movement with a goal of returning the Anglican Church and all her assets back to Rome.
The movement's leading call was for a return to the fundamental spirit and rituals of the historical Christian church through cooperation with the contemporary Roman Catholic Church.
The Oxford Movement's doctrinal positions, as presented and defended in the various ninety tracts, were presented as a middle-ground between Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism.
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 A New Liturgical Movement?
Oxford remains not merely a memorial to the Oxford Movement and its influence but a growing centre of present-day Catholicism.
Most of the participants in the Oxford conference, both clerical and lay, accepted that there had been an "impoverishment" of the Catholic liturgy in the wake of the Council that was not mandated by the Conciliar documents themselves.
The appearance of the Oxford Declaration and the immediate response to it is one indication of the fact that a revived liturgical movement is now gaining strength and confidence in England as well as the United States.
www.catholic.net /RCC/Periodicals/Inside/08-96/liturgy2.html   (3521 words)

  
 Oxford Movement in Jane Eyre
The Oxford Movement began as a movement to reform the Church of England in 1833.
The Oxford movement thought that they needed to lead the Church back to the "true" church of the fourth century AD; drawing on the patristic writings of St. Augustine, St. Jerome and St. Bernard, their aim was to revive the ritual and mysticism of the early church.
The Oxford Movement and its leaders had the best intentions to reform the Church, but it seems to have been most successful in the way it pursued faith as "an impulse of the heart and conscience not an inquiry of the head" (Chadwick 12).
www.umd.umich.edu /casl/hum/eng/classes/434/charweb/RELIGION.htm   (1269 words)

  
 Oxford Movement
A movement to reform the Church of England begun at Oxford University in 1833, the Oxford movement was led by John Keble, John Henry Newman, and Richard Hurrell Froude.
The Oxford Movement was an important religious development within the Church of England in the nineteenth century in response to the critical rationalism, skepticism, lethargy, liberalism, and immorality of the day.
While the Oxford Movement was opposed in print by traditional churchmen as well as liberal academic thinkers, perhaps no one group matched the evangelicals in their enormous output of literature, printed sermons, tracts, articles, books, and pamphlets against the Tractarians.
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 A Brief History of the University : University of Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In the late 17th century, the Oxford philosopher John Locke, suspected of treason, was forced to flee the country.
The 18th century, when Oxford was said to have forsaken port for politics, was also an era of scientific discovery and religious revival.
From 1833 onwards The Oxford Movement sought to revitalise the Catholic aspects of the Anglican Church.
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 The Oxford movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Oxford Movement was begun by a group of University of Oxford theologians who were concerned about the health of the Church of England.
On July 14, 1833 John Kebel preached at Oxford the sermon "On the National Apostasy" where he warned the Church of England against the threat of domination by secular authorities and its abandoning of its earlier traditions.
The movement stressed that the Church of England was created by divine authority and that the Anglican bishops were successors of the apostles.
www.stpaulscathedral.org /about/history/articles/oxford.htm   (446 words)

  
 The Oxford Movement and the English Church II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Oxford Movement and the English Church II The Oxford Movement and the English Church II Froude's "Remains" and Tract 90
The vice-chancellor of Oxford repudiated the views of Tract 90 as inconsistent with the university statutes.
After the controversy, Newman began to withdraw as the active leader of the Oxford Movement, retiring to the village of Littlemore where he attempted to establish an informal religious community with a few friends.
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 What is the Oxford Movement?
HE TERM ‘Oxford Movement’ is often used to describe the whole of what might be called the Catholic revival in the Church of England.
In the early 1830s, at Oriel College in Oxford, a growing number of young and extremely able Fellows, informally grouped around the slightly older John Keble, were increasingly outspoken about the needs and shortcomings of the contemporary church.
The weight of leadership of the Oxford Movement had largely been borne by Newman, the Vicar of the University Church, but in the wake of the furore which accompanied Tract Ninety he increasingly withdrew to his semi-monastic establishment at Littlemore.
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 The Oxford Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
On the 14th July the Oxford Movement is commemorated in many parts of the Anglican Communion.
Its beginning is the sermon on National Apostasy preached by John Keble in the University Church, St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford on the 14th July, 1833.
Consequently a product of the Oxford Movement was to publish the writings and sermons of many of these divines, such as Andrewes, Cosin, Bramhall and Frank.
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 July 14: Oxford movement begins with Keble sermon
The religious movement of which he spoke was the Oxford Movement, a stirring toward reformation by the high church adherents of the Church of England which began with Keble's sermon on this day, July 14, 1833.
The Oxford Movement began as an effort to reform the Church of England.
The overall effect of the movement was to restore a higher level of spirituality among the English clergy.
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 The Oxford Movement and the English Church I
He was in office at the accession of Queen Victoria for whom he acted as mentor in the early years of her rule.
Appointed Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University (1828), Pusey identified himself with the aims of the Oxford Movement with the publication of his tract on fasting (Tract 18, 1833).
The Oxford Movement and the Vocation of the Church
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 Oxford Movement
The Oxford Movement was an attempt to prove that the Church of England was a direct descendant of the Christian church established by the Apostles.
The leader was John Henry Newman a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and vicar of St Mary's Church, Oxford.
In the ninetieth and final Tract, Newman argued that the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, as defined by the Council of Trent, were compatible with the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England.
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 The Oxford Movement
But the conservative, even reactionary, Oxford leaders were, like all of us, products of their time, and they were not the only ones to look fondly on an earlier age in their disgust with the crass commercial and industrial spirit of the 19th Century.
The Oxford Movement, which men of all schools and parties now recognize as the turn of the tide in the religious life of modern England, was wholly bent on other than social aims.
These, however, were all movements in and from the mass of the people, among whom the Church of England had at this time no roots through which it could draw a comprehension of their meaning.
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 Oxford Movement Historical Theology Collection (10 volumes)
The Oxford Movement sought to establish the via media (the middle way) between the extremes of the abuses of the Medieval Papacy, and the stripped-down minimalist religion of Protestant Geneva.
Written on the Feast of Saint Matthias, 1839, this volume (composed as a letter to the Bishop of Oxford) is a defense of the author against charges that he was teaching doctrines of Rome rather than adhering to the Formularies of the Church of England.
Oxford Movement Historical Theology Collection’s arrival to the Logos Bible Software library means these ten important volumes have become more useful than ever to your study of church history and theology.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Oxford Movement (1833-1845)
Oxford to unbelief, as Newman foresaw, and the latter answered wrathfully that Hampden's views made shipwreck of the Christian faith.
Oxford; the "Times" was coming over to their side; Bampton Lectures were beginning to talk of Catholic tradition as the practical rule of faith; and Evangelicals, infuriated if not dismayed, were put on their defence.
Surveying the movement as a whole we perceive that it was part of the general Christian uprising which the French Revolution called forth.
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 Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology: Oxford Movement
The primary outlines of the Anglican Communion as it exists today were shaped by and in reaction to a handful of Oxford academicians (hence the term “Oxford Movement”) who are referred to as the “Tractarians,” a name derived from a series of 90 Tracts for the Times which they published anonymously between 1833 and 1841.
The specific occasion which marks the beginning of the Oxford Movement was a sermon preached by Keble on July 14, 1833.
But it is worthwhile noting that the Oxford Movement continued even after Newman’s departure for Rome; his hopes of bringing fellow Tractarians with him for his swim across the Tiber did not materialize.
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 Oxford Information - The Scholar's Guide to Oxford, UK. Tourist information for visitors to the University city of ...
Each year, the Norrington table ranks Oxford colleges in order of academic excellence, with colleges scoring points according to the performance of their undergraduates in that year's Final Examination.
Oriel holds the record for the longest name in Oxford, since its official name is 'The Provost and Scholars of the House of the Blessed Mary the Virgin in Oxford, commonly called Oriel College, the foundation of Edward the Second of famous memory, sometime King of England'.
It was at the centre of the Oxford Movement in the 19th century, but in recent times has become more famous for rowing, having finished Head of the River in most of the last 25 years of the 20th century.
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 zoxfordmovement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Oxford Movement, The Tractarians, liturgical movement, catholic revival.
Inevitably, many members of the movement left the Church of England, and were received into the Catholic Church, most notably Newman and Manning, both of whom went on to become Cardinals.
The trauma resulting from the decision by the CofE in the early 1990s to ordain women as priests in isolation, was sensationally referred to in the press as 'the end of the Oxford Movement'.
www.suffolkchurches.co.uk /zoxfordmovement.htm   (356 words)

  
 Oxford Movement - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Oxford Movement
Movement that attempted to revive Catholic religion in the Church of England.
Cardinal Newman dated the movement from Keble's sermon in Oxford in 1833.
The Oxford Movement by the turn of the century had transformed the Anglican communion, and survives today as Anglo-Catholicism.
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 Quodlibet Online Journal: The Oxford Movement and the 19th-Century Episcopal Church: by Larry Crockett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Noting that there were several movements in the nineteenth century that reacted against the dry rationalism of the eighteenth century, John MacQuarrie sees parallels between the Oxford Movement in England, the Schleiermacher-inspired German theology which emphasized the intuitive and the affective, and Kierkegaard's subjective critique of state Christianity.
The point is that the Oxford Movement was part of a much larger Romantic movement which sought restoration of the church in terms consonant with antiquity and, to a lesser extent, the Middle Ages.
To cite the "Oxford Movement" or "Tractarianism" as an account of the rise of the catholic movement in America is far too simple a characterization of the complex, uniquely American tapestry that was the Episcopal Church in the 19th century.
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