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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816610303321

Autore

Herring George

Titolo

What was the Oxford Movement? / / George Herring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2002

ISBN

1-282-71006-0

9786612710063

1-4411-1513-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Collana

Outstanding Christian Thinkers

Disciplina

283.42

Soggetti

Oxford movement

Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction: interpretations past and present; 1 Contexts; 2 Ideas; 3 Events; 4 Parishes; Epilogue; Documents; Notes; Further reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This account of the Oxford or Tractarian movement provides essential information to the study of English church history and the history of England during the Victorian era. This book is an up-to-date, scholarly but approachable exploration of the Movement which features primary material from a range of its key members. Herring looks at the relationship beween the Movement and the older, pre-1833 High Church tradition and, crucially, at developments after Newman's departure for Rome in 1845. By placing the Tractarians in the general political and social context of Victorian movements that sough