The Oxford Movement: Europe and the Wider World 1830-1930

by Peter B. Nockles and Stewart J. Brown

Book Overview

The Oxford Movement transformed the nineteenth-century Church of England with a renewed conception of itself as a spiritual body. Initiated in the early 1830s by members of the University of Oxford, it was a response to threats to the established church posed by British Dissenters, Irish Catholics, Whig and Radical politicians, and the predominant evangelical ethos - what Newman called 'the religion of the day'. The Tractarians believed they were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107680271
• ISBN13: 9781107680272
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"