The Oxford Movement

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.

Author: Stewart J. Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/28/2012
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781107016446

About the Author
Nockles, Peter B.: - Dr Peter B. Nockles is curator and librarian in the department of Printed Books, Special Collections, John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester, and Research Fellow in Religions and Theology, University of Manchester. He is the author of The Oxford Movement in Context (Cambridge University Press, 1994).Brown, Stewart J.: - Stewart J. Brown is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Providence and Empire: Religion, Politics and Society in the United Kingdom 1815-1914 (2008), The Cambridge History of Christianity, Vol. VII: Enlightenment, Reawakening and Revolution 1660-1815 (co-edited with Timothy Tackett, Cambridge University Press, 2006), The National Churches of England, Ireland and Scotland 1801-46 (2001) and Thomas Chalmers and the Godly Commonwealth in Scotland (1982).