Product Description

This book offers a radical reassessment of the significance of the Oxford Movement and of its leaders, Newman, Keble, and Pusey, by setting them in the context of the Anglican High Church tradition of the preceding 70 years. No other study offers such a comprehensive treatment of the historical and theological context in which the Tractarians operated.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #501808 in Books
• Published on: 1996-12-12
• Released on: 2008-01-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 364 pages

Review
‘A remarkable study which substantially rewrites an important slice of Anglican history: that which explains the antecedents, and so diagnoses the essence, of the Oxford Movement … Everyone concerned about the identity of Anglicanism should read this book.’ Jonathan Clark, The Spectator

‘… definitive and indispensable … this book will be a standard text for any serious student of the subject.’ James Garrard, Theology

‘A fine work of scholarship that deserves to stand as an authority for students of ecclesiastical history for years to come.’ David Newsome, Times Higher Education Supplement

‘… a … mature, and nuanced work … based upon an impressive range of new (or little known) manuscripts and printed sources, meticulously researched … What we are given here is what was, previously, so often lacking in study of the Oxford Movement: an adequate political and religious context in which to evaluate the remarkable transformation of the high church tradition into the 1830s and 40s … This important book has already made its mark.’ Perry Butler,Heythrop Journal

Customer Reviews

The Tractarian Revolution
Nockles sees the Tractarians as innovators, not as the sole heirs to the old High Church tradition, indeed for him they distorted the Caroline heritage of the Church of England. Unlike the old High Churchmen they did not believe in the Confessional State, nor in antiquity as merely corroborative testimony to the truth of Anglican formularies or the truth of its standard divines, nor in the validity of Reformed orders overseas, nor in an anti-Roman ecclesiology, nor in the disassociation of episcopal succession and sacramental validity, nor in some type of receptionism.He sees 1833 as a watershed in divergence between Tractarian and old High Church theology. In the 1840's the Bishops and Heads of Houses were largely old fashioned High Churchmen. Newman left because he no longer fitted.
This is an excellent book which has been waiting to be written and its author has done his work well weaving together a vast mass of evidence and in the process slaying a fair number of myths.