Devotional and Liturgical Renewal

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Herring
Keyword(s):  
John Henry Newman ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
Liturgical Practice ◽  
Liturgical Renewal ◽  
The Relationship

In this chapter the author explores the relationship between the Oxford Movement and liturgical practice. From the beginnings of the Movement in the 1830s, John Henry Newman and other early leaders perceived a danger in an overemphasis on the ceremonial, an attitude that continued to be shared by mainstream Tractarianism after 1845. The 1860s proved to be a pivotal decade, however, with a growing use of eucharistic vestments, incense, and other practices that had been absent in earlier decades. The author analyses the reasons for this change of emphasis, and the relationship between the newer Ritualism and the original aims and methods of the Movement, along with the response of their opponents.

Mysticism and Sacramentalism in the Oxford Movement

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Westhaver
Keyword(s):  
John Henry Newman ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
Book Of Nature ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
The Relationship

Mysticism and sacramentalism were key terms for John Henry Newman, John Keble, and E. B. Pusey because they expressed their understanding of the incarnation and of the relationship of the created order to God. The term ‘mystery’ can describe both the enigmatic character of spiritual knowledge, as it is communicated in Scripture or in the Book of Nature, and the sacramental partaking of the incarnation—that is, the participation in the reality so described. The mystical was closely intertwined with the sacramental for Newman, Keble, and Pusey: the truth which was known was also the life into which one was drawn by participation, illumination, and sanctification.

‘An Amazing Want of Christianity’: Bishop Samuel Wilberforce and John Henry Newman’s Tense Relationship

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Jérôme Grosclaude
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Catholic Identity ◽  
Young Brother ◽  
John Henry Newman ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

Abstract This paper will examine the relationship between Samuel Wilberforce and John Henry Newman. The two priests had a common cause in their wish to see the Church of England rediscover its Catholic identity – which led them to work alongside one another at the beginning of the Oxford Movement – but quickly drifted apart because of their strong divergences on the nature of the Church and the place of Tradition, as well as Samuel Wilberforce’s strong hostility to Rome. The paper also examines the place of Samuel Wilberforce’s young brother in this relationship.

Reformed Exiles and International Calvinism in Reformation-Era Europe

2021 ◽  
pp. 236-252
Author(s):  
Jesse Spohnholz
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Structure ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
State Authority ◽  
Liturgical Practice ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter evaluates the role of religious exile in the development of confessional Calvinism during the Reformation era. Historians once put considerable emphasis on the widespread experience of exile in encouraging the development of a well-defined international Calvinist movement. This chapter reconsiders this framework from the perspective of theology, ecclesiology, liturgy, discipline, and the relationship to state authority. Drawing on recent research, it argues that, rather than encouraging confessional consolidation, exile was a deeply destabilizing force that helps explain why Reformed Protestantism never developed a unified institutional structure, liturgical practice, or statement of belief.

Eucharistic Ecclesiology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Handschy
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
John Henry Newman ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
Constitutional Reforms ◽  
The Church

As the constitutional reforms of the 1820s and 1830s called into question the nature of the establishment of the Church of England, leaders of the Oxford Movement looked to the American Episcopal Church as an example of a Church not dependent on state establishment. Bishops Samuel Seabury and John Henry Hobart had constructed a constitution for the American Episcopal Church based on a ‘purely spiritual’ episcopacy and a doctrine of eucharistic sacrifice. Their example influenced Hugh James Rose, John Henry Newman, E. B. Pusey, and John Keble in the course of the Oxford Movement, and this in turn influenced the course of the Ritualist movement within the American Episcopal Church.

Pre-Tractarian Oxford

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Nockles
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
John Henry Newman ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The University ◽  
Parting Of The Ways

The roots of and context for the genesis of the Oxford Movement can be traced to the intellectual and spiritual formation of its leaders, protagonists, and disciples provided within the milieu of the University of Oxford and notably Oriel College. The influence of the Oriel Noetics was crucial but that of John Keble and Hurrell Froude on the impressionable John Henry Newman and others was no less significant. A parting of the ways between those who would become Tractarians and the Noetics, first evident in the Peel election of 1829, was reflected in Oriel’s tutor dispute of 1830, giving a foretaste of the deepening divisions of the 1830s discussed in a later chapter.

The Oxford Movement, Asceticism, and Sexual Desire

2020 ◽  
pp. 352-369
Author(s):  
Dominic Janes
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
John Henry Newman ◽  
Charles Kingsley ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

The chapter is set in the context of the history of the denominational evolution of monasticism and sainthood within Victorian Catholicism in both its Roman and Anglican forms. It explores, by means of a series of key examples, the battle between the proponents and opponents of medieval and contemporary monasticism and sainthood. The aim of this is to explain the range of views towards religious asceticism within Victorian society and their relationship to contemporary constructions of gender and forms of sexual desire. Examples of key figures, notably John Henry Newman, Charles Kingsley, and Joseph Leycester Lyne, provide instances of some of the ways in which sexual desire became associated with Catholic forms of devotion which, on the face of it, championed celibacy and resistance to fleshly desires.

Two Philosophers of the Oxford Movement

Philosophy ◽  
1933 ◽  
Vol 8 (31) ◽  
pp. 273-284
Author(s):  
Clement C. J. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Political Life ◽  
John Henry Newman ◽  
Philosophical Literature ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technical Sense ◽  
The University ◽  
Speculative Thought

This year is being celebrated by a large number of our fellow-countrymen as the centenary of a movement, associated with the name of the University of Oxford, of which, although in its first stage it might easily be mistaken—and has often been mistaken—for a mere wave of theological and ecclesiastical reaction within the Established Church of England, the attentive historian of the nineteenth century must take account as in fact a very powerful influence in the religious and, no less really though to a less degree, in the social and political life of the whole nation. Considerable, however, as is the importance which may justly be attributed in other respects to what is known as the Oxford Movement, the professed student of philosophy may be excused if he is chiefly struck by the apparent remoteness of its original leaders from the currents of speculative thought characteristic of the period in which it began its course. There were perhaps among them only two who can be named as contributors to philosophical literature in the technical sense now commonly borne by the term “philosophical”; and the contributions even of these two can scarcely be said to have taken their place among the works to which an ordinary teacher of philosophy would be likely to direct the attention of his pupils. To these two, however, John Henry Newman and William George Ward, I propose to devote here a few pages which may be found not without interest to readers of Philosophy.

The Oxford Movement’s Theory of Religious Knowledge

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Pereiro
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
John Henry Newman ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
Full Expression

At its foundation, the Oxford Movement was characterized by a theory of religious knowledge drawn from Joseph Butler’s Analogy of Religion and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, a theory which had particular influence on John Keble. Later, Keble’s original insights into religious knowledge were developed by Richard Hurrell Froude and John Henry Newman, and passed on to their students at Oriel and to others who came under their influence. This distinctive theory of knowledge, and especially of religious knowledge, was at the heart of the Movement’s varied intellectual contributions and inspired its activities. However, this theory of knowledge did not receive a full expression in any of their books, except perhaps in Newman’s University Sermons.

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