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Oxford Movement
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A movement in the
Church
of England, beginning in the 19th cent., which had a profound impact on the theology, piety, and liturgy of
Anglicanism
. Its acknowledged leaders, John Keble, J. H.
Newman
, and E. B.
Pusey
, were all Oxford dons, and it is Keble's 1833 sermon on ‘National Apostasy’ (attacking the government's plan to suppress, without proper reference to the Church, ten Irish bishoprics) which is conventionally seen as the moment when the movement came to birth.
The movement reacted against decline in church life, the threat posed by liberal theology and rationalism, and the fear that the government was, in the words of Keble, intent on making the Church of England ‘as one sect among many’.
The organ of the movement was the series of Tracts for the Times (1–90; 1833–41) from which its supporters derived the name
Tractarians
. Although aimed against both ‘Popery and Dissent’, they were viewed with increasing alarm by those outside the movement who saw in them evidence of creeping Romanism. Newman's
Tract Ninety
, which attempted to square the
Thirty-Nine Articles
with Roman Catholicism, was condemned by many bishops, and a crisis was reached in 1845 when Newman and some of his supporters converted to Rome.
The heart of the movement's renewal of Anglicanism lay not so much in the ritual of worship, as in the impetus it gave to more godly living worked out through the revival of religious communities and a deep commitment to parish and mission work, especially among the poor and deprived.
Church
of England, beginning in the 19th cent., which had a profound impact on the theology, piety, and liturgy of
Anglicanism
. Its acknowledged leaders, John Keble, J. H.
Newman
, and E. B.
Pusey
, were all Oxford dons, and it is Keble's 1833 sermon on ‘National Apostasy’ (attacking the government's plan to suppress, without proper reference to the Church, ten Irish bishoprics) which is conventionally seen as the moment when the movement came to birth.
The movement reacted against decline in church life, the threat posed by liberal theology and rationalism, and the fear that the government was, in the words of Keble, intent on making the Church of England ‘as one sect among many’.
The organ of the movement was the series of Tracts for the Times (1–90; 1833–41) from which its supporters derived the name
Tractarians
. Although aimed against both ‘Popery and Dissent’, they were viewed with increasing alarm by those outside the movement who saw in them evidence of creeping Romanism. Newman's
Tract Ninety
, which attempted to square the
Thirty-Nine Articles
with Roman Catholicism, was condemned by many bishops, and a crisis was reached in 1845 when Newman and some of his supporters converted to Rome.
The heart of the movement's renewal of Anglicanism lay not so much in the ritual of worship, as in the impetus it gave to more godly living worked out through the revival of religious communities and a deep commitment to parish and mission work, especially among the poor and deprived.
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