This document provides information about the Oxford Movement, a 19th century movement within the Church of England. It began as a response to perceived attacks on the established church in Ireland. Leaders like Edward Pusey and John Henry Newman attacked liberal theology and reconsidered the relationship between the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church. Newman eventually converted to Catholicism, as did some other Tractarians. The movement published works on the Church Fathers and had influence on Anglican theory and practice, though it was also criticized.

1. THE OXFORD MOVEMENT
Name: Vaishali Hareshbhai Jasoliya
Class: M.A.Sem.- 2
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Year: 2015-16
Submitted to: Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University

3. The Oxford Movement
 The Oxford Movement was a movement of
High Church members of the Church of
England which eventually developed into
Anglo-Catholicism.
 The Oxford Movement was religious rather
than literary.
 The movement was also known as the
“Tractarian Movement” after its series of
publications, the tracts for the Times,
published from 1833 to 1841.

4. Two prominent Tractarians
Edward Bouverie Pusey John Henry Newman

5. Origins
 The movement was a perceived attack by the
reforming Whig administration on the
structure of the established church in Ireland
with the Irish Church Temporalities Bill (1833).
 The movement’s leaders attacked liberalism in
theology.
 Their interest in Christian origins led some of
them to reconsider the relationship of the
Church of England with the Roman Catholic
Church.

6. Effect of Oxford Movement
 The movement postulated the Branch Theory,
which states that Anglicanism along with
Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism from three
“branches” of the historic Catholic Church.
 Three “branches” - Holy, Catholic and
Apostolic Church.
 Newman’s eventual reception into the Roman
Catholic Church in 1845, followed by Henry
Edward Manning in 1851, had a profound
effect upon the Movement.

7. Publications
 The group began a collection of translations of
the Church Fathers, which they called the
Library of the Fathers.
 The collection eventually ran to 48 volumes,
the last published three years after Pusey’s
death.
 A number of volumes of original Greek and
Latin texts was also published.

8. Influence and Criticism
 The Oxford movement
was attacked for being a
mere “Romanising”
tendency, but it begun
to have an influence on
the theory and practice
of Anglicanism.
 Paradoxically, the
Oxford Movement was
also attacked for being
both secretive and
broadly collusive.

9. Tractarians who became Roman
Catholic
 One of the principal writers and proponents of
the Tractarian Movement was John Henry
Newman, a popular Oxford priest who, after
writing his final tract.
 He was one of a number of Anglican clergy
who were received into the Roman Catholic
Church during the 1840s who were either
members of, or were influenced by, the
Tractarian Movement.