The Spirit of the Oxford Movement
Tractarian Essays

This brings together some of Owen Chadwick's most important and characteristic essays on the Tractarian Movement.

Owen Chadwick (Author)

9780521424400, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 February 1992

336 pages
22.6 x 15.1 x 2.8 cm, 0.545 kg

'There is an enchantment on this volume, as of the light that never was on sea or land. Professor Owen Chadwick disputes with his brother Henry the claim to be the most eminent ecclesiastical historian of his generation … He is, moreover, supremely a scholar whose writings are popular in their immediate accessibility to the educated general reader through a lightness of tone and a breathtaking charm which turn everything to gold.' Sheridan Gilley, The Tablet

The Spirit of the Oxford Movement brings together some of Owen Chadwick's most important and characteristic essays on the Tractarian Movement and the Church of England in the Victorian era. Along with studies of Newman, Liddon, Edward King and Henri Bremond are included more general essays surveying the reaction of the Established Church and on the nature of Catholicism. In particular the revision of the long-unobtainable analysis of 'The Mind of the Oxford Movement' illustrates once again the profound contribution Owen Chadwick has made to our understanding of religion in Britain in the nineteenth century.

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The mind of the Oxford Movement
2. The limitations of Keble
3. The Ecclesiastical Commission
4. 'Lead, Kindly Light'
5. The university on Mount Zion
6. Charles Kingsley at Cambridge
7. The Oxford Movement and its reminiscences
8. Newman and the historians
9. Henri Bremond and Newman
10. The established Church under attack
11. The young Liddon
12. The choice of bishops
13. Edward King
14. A Tractarian pastoral ideal
15. Catholicism
Further reading
Index.

Subject Areas: History of religion [HRAX]