What Was the Oxford Movement?

by George Herring

Overview

This account of the Oxford or Tractarian movement provides essential information to the study of English church history and the history of England during the Victorian era. This book is an up-to-date, scholarly but approachable exploration of the Movement which features primary material from a range of its key members. Herring looks at the relationship beween the Movement and the older, pre-1833 High Church tradition and, crucially, at developments after Newman's departure for Rome in 1845. By placing the Tractarians in the general political and social context of Victorian movements that sought to revitalize England's traditional institutions during a period of urbanization and industrialization, Herring brings new meaning to the movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826451866
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/30/2002
Series:	Outstanding Christian Thinkers Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Dr George Herring is a Church historian who studied history at Leicester University as an undergraduate and did his doctoral research at Keble College, Oxford. He has taught history in higher education for over 25 years and currently teaches part time for the Schools of Lifelong Education at York and Bradford Universities. He is the author of 'What Was the Oxford Movement?' also published by Continuum.

Editorial Reviews

"An invaluable short study of the catholic revival that took place within the Anglican Church during the 19th century."
Oxford Today, Michalmas Issue 2002.

"George Herring has produed a useful introduction to the Oxford Movement, outlining the key contexts, ideas and events, supported by well chosen quotations from primary texts."
Andrew Atherstone, Ecclesistical History, April 2003

"Set to become a key student text." Northallerton Thirsk & Bedale Times, 3 May 2002

"The author charts the progress of Tractarianism from its pre-1833 high-church inspiration through later ritualist developments with an impressive balance of attention...This book is the best general introduction to Tractarian ideas, events, parishes and documents, and it deserves a wide audience." The Living Church, March 9, 2003

"Set to become a key student text."--Northallerton Thirsk & Bedale Times, 3 May 2002

Helpful maps and graphs are provided, in addition to an appendix of 40 short primary texts, which allow the reader to experience first-hand the tone and flavor of the writings of both the Tractarians and their opponents. Herring s book focuses on the idea s and implications of the movement. - The Episcopal New Yorker, July / August 2004

"This book is the best general introduction to Tractarian ideas, events, parishes and documents, and it deserves a wide audience."

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