The Oxford Movement in Context Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760}}}1857 [Paperback]

A radical reassessment of the Oxford Movement and its leaders, Newman, Keble, and Pusey.This book offers a radical reassessment of the significance of the Oxford Movement and of its leaders, Newman, Keble, and Pusey, by setting them in the context of the Anglican High Church tradition of the preceding 70 years. No other study offers such a comprehensive treatment of the historical and theological context in which the Tractarians operated.This book offers a radical reassessment of the significance of the Oxford Movement and of its leaders, Newman, Keble, and Pusey, by setting them in the context of the Anglican High Church tradition of the preceding 70 years. No other study offers such a comprehensive treatment of the historical and theological context in which the Tractarians operated.This study breaks new ground in setting the Oxford Movement in its historical and theological context. Peter Nockles conducts a rigorous examination of the nineteenth-century Catholic revival in the Church of England, and shows that in many respects this revival had been anticipated by a revival of the Anglican High Church tradition in the preceding seventy years. No other study offers such a comprehensive treatment of the extent of divergence, as well as of continuity, between the Oxford Movement and the older High Churchmanship preceding it.Historiographical introduction; 1. Church and state: the politics of high churchmanship; 2. Antiquity and the rule of faith; 3. Ecclesiology: the apostolic paradigm; 4. Spirituality, liturgy and sacraments; 5. The economy of salvation: sacraments and justification; 6. The old high churchmen and tractarians in historical relation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. ...a well-written and readable account of the High Church movement that should be read by anyone interested in the political and religious dimensions of Hanoverian and Victorian England. Robert D. Cornwall, American Historical Review Nockles's work serves well to augment our understandil37