The Evangelical and Oxford Movements

This book is devoted to the writings of the Evangelical and Oxford movements, whose leading members were key figures in the religious debate that so preoccupied early Victorian society.

Elisabeth Jay (Edited by)

9780521286695, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 April 1983

232 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.51 kg

This book is devoted to the writings of the Evangelical and Oxford movements, whose leading members were key figures in the religious debate that so preoccupied early Victorian society. The Evangelical writers included here - Charles Simeon, Francis Close, William Goode and Edward Miall - enjoyed wide influence in their own day but their writings are now either forgotten or largely inaccessible. The writers in the Oxford Movement represented here - Keble, Williams, Newman and Pusey - are better known, though only Newman's prose has received much attention. By concentrating upon the period 1825 to 1850 Dr Jay is able to show the complex social, educational, and political influences on the religious debate and to trace the dynamics of the relationship between the two movements. This book will prove to be an indispensable tool for all serious students of nineteenth-century literature, history and theology.

1. Charles Simeon (1759–1836)
2. Francis Close (1797–1882)
3. William Goode (1801–1868)
4. Edward Miall (1809–1881)
5. Isaac Williams (1802–1865)
6. John Keble (1792–1866)
7. John Henry Newman (1801–1890)
8. Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882).

Subject Areas: Christian theology [HRCM], Christianity [HRC]