oxford movement

[lizbrujita]

can sb help me??? I need to know what was the oxford movement. I know it developed in the victorian era but i need more information...:(
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[Whifflingpin]

The Oxford Movement was religious rather than literary (although some of the hymns written by such members as Newman are fine poems, and the movement does feature in some literary works)

The Oxford Movement was, in the mid-to-late Victorian period, within the Church of England, a movement to re-establish the dignity of the priesthood and worship, and to re-emphasize the catholicity of the Church of England. As well as the restoration of ritual that had been ignored in the preceding two centuries, the movement was very concerned with developing pastoral care and in bringing religion to the people. "Anglo-Catholic" and "High Church" are terms still used to describe the descendants of the Oxford Movement.

[JohnAvg]

The Oxford Movement (or Tractarianism) was an affiliation of High Church Anglicans, most of whom were members of the University of Oxford, who sought to demonstrate that the Church of England was a direct descendant of the Church established by the Apostles.

The immediate impetus for the movement was the secularization of the church, focused particularly on the decision by the government to reduce by ten the number of Irish bishops in the Church of Ireland following the 1832 Reform Act. Keble attacked these proposals as 'national apostasy' in his Assize Sermon in Oxford in 1833. The movement's leaders attacked liberalism in theology. Their interest in Christian origins led them to reconsider the relationship of the Church of England with the Roman Catholic Church.
The movement postulated the Branch Theory, which states that Anglicanism along with Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism form three "branches" of the one "Catholic Church". Men in the movement argued for the inclusion of traditional aspects of liturgy from medieval religious practice, as they believed the church had become too plain. In the ninetieth and final Tract, Newman argued that the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, as defined by the Council of Trent, were compatible with the Thirty-Nine Articles of the sixteenth-century Church of England. Newman's conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1845, followed by Manning in 1851, had a profound effect upon the movement.

The Oxford Movement was attacked for being a mere Romanising tendency, but it began to have an influence on the theory and practice of Anglicanism. It resulted in the establishment of Anglican religious orders, both of men and women. It incorporated ideas and practices related to the practice of liturgy and ceremony in a move to bring more powerful emotional symbolism and energy to the church. In particular it brought the insights of the Liturgical Movement into the life of the Church.


Its effects were so widespread that the Eucharist gradually became more central to worship, vestments became common, and numerous Catholic practices were re-introduced into worship. This led to controversies within churches that ended up in court.