Oxford movement

Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford

The Oxford Movement (English: Oxford movement ) was created within the Anglican Church in 1830 as an attempt to Anglicanism underlying Catholic principles and early religious orientations increased to bring to bear.

The actual hour of birth was the sermon "National Apostasy", which John Keble had given on July 14, 1833 in the university church of St Mary the Virgin . The movement was sustained by John Keble, John Henry Newman and Edward Bouverie Pusey , who taught at Oxford . Another well-known member of the movement was Frederick William Faber , who, like Newman, became a Catholic priest and oratorian. After the "Tracts for the Time" published by Newman since 1833, these protagonists were also called Traktarians .

The doctrine was condemned by the Anglican hierarchy when the ecclesiastical legitimacy of Anglicanism was questioned. Newman converted to Catholicism in 1845 . His autobiography "Apologia pro vita sua" (1864) also tells the story of the Oxford movement. From the movement the high church direction of the Anglican Church developed with effects on liturgical and theological area, in contrast to the Protestant low church direction.

literature

• The Puseyites . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . No. 22 . J. J. Weber, Leipzig November 25, 1843, p. 342-343 ( books.google.de ).
• Wilfrid Philip Ward: William George Ward and the Oxford movement . Macmillan, London 1889 (Reprint New York 1977)
• Wilfrid Philip Ward: William George Ward and the Catholic Revival . Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co., New York 1912
• S. Parkes Cadman: The three religious leaders of Oxford and their movements: John Wycliffe, John Wesley, John Henry Newman . The MacMillan Company, New York 1916
• Rev. Thomas Mozley: Reminiscences: chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford Movement . Vol. I. 2nd edition. Publisher: Longmans, Greene & Co ,. London 1882
• Rev. Thomas Mozley: Reminiscences: chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford Movement . Vol. II, 2nd edition. Publisher: Longmans, Greene & Co ,. London 1882
• Max Keller-Hüschemenger: The teaching of the church in the Oxford movement . Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn, Gütersloh 1974, ISBN 3-579-04224-6 .
• Albrecht Geck (Ed.): Authority and Faith. Edward Bouverie Pusey and Friedrich August Gotttreu Tholuck in correspondence (1825–1865) . V&R Unipress, Osnabrück 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-577-4 .
• Stewart J. Brown, Peter B. Nockles (Eds.): The Oxford Movement. Europe and the Wider World 1830–1930 . Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2012.

Web links

• The Nineteenth-Century High Church: Tractarianism, the Oxford Movement, and Ritualism
• The Oxford Movement in “Encyclopædia Britannica”