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THE OXFORD MOVEMENTName: Vaishali Hareshbhai Jasoliya Class: M.A.Sem.- 2Roll No.: 28Paper No.: 06 ( Victorian Literature)Enrolment No.: 14101028Email ID: [email protected]: 2015-16Submitted to: Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
The Oxford Movement The Oxford Movement was a movement of
High Church members of the Church of England which eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism.
The Oxford Movement was religious rather than literary.
The movement was also known as the “Tractarian Movement” after its series of publications, the tracts for the Times, published from 1833 to 1841.
Two prominent Tractarians
Edward Bouverie Pusey John Henry Newman
Origins The movement was a perceived attack by the
reforming Whig administration on the structure of the established church in Ireland with the Irish Church Temporalities Bill (1833).
The movement’s leaders attacked liberalism in theology.
Their interest in Christian origins led some of them to reconsider the relationship of the Church of England with the Roman Catholic Church.
Effect of Oxford Movement The movement postulated the Branch Theory,
which states that Anglicanism along with Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism from three “branches” of the historic Catholic Church.
Three “branches” - Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Newman’s eventual reception into the Roman Catholic Church in 1845, followed by Henry Edward Manning in 1851, had a profound effect upon the Movement.
Publications The group began a collection of translations of
the Church Fathers, which they called the Library of the Fathers.
The collection eventually ran to 48 volumes, the last published three years after Pusey’s death.
A number of volumes of original Greek and Latin texts was also published.
Influence and Criticism The Oxford movement
was attacked for being a mere “Romanising” tendency, but it begun to have an influence on the theory and practice of Anglicanism.
Paradoxically, the Oxford Movement was also attacked for being both secretive and broadly collusive.
Tractarians who became Roman Catholic
One of the principal writers and proponents of the Tractarian Movement was John Henry Newman, a popular Oxford priest who, after writing his final tract.
He 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, the Tractarian Movement.
