The Oxford Movement

The Oxford movement

1. Topic:- The Oxford Movement Course name:- The Romantic literature Roll no. 12 Submitted to :- Department of English. Email:- [email protected] Prepared by:- Ankita Gohel

2. The Oxford Movement

3. The Oxford Movement The Oxford movement was start in 19 th century at the centre of university of oxford. At the time Roman catholic was practice within the Church of England in the opposition to the Protestant tendencies of the Church. Oxford Movement were concerned with the truths of religion and the Christian life as lived in conformity with those truths. They were not concerned with the externals of religion The Oxford Movement

4. The founder of the Oxford movement spread their view on the writing of “The Tracts for the Time". so they become known as Tractarian. The Oxford movement known as the “Tractarian movement”. The Tracts were directed chiefly to the Clergy and forcing them to teach the full faith without doubt or hesitation. Tractarian Movement

5. s Edward purcy Two prominent Tractarian Edward Pusey John Henry Newman

6. The aims of the oxford movement The aim of the oxford movement The aim of the Movement was to rehabilitate the dignity of the church, to defend the church against the interference of the State, to fight against liberalism, to defend religion against the onslaught of scientific discoveries, and to preserve faith against rationalism.

7. Tractarian movement was a perceived attack by the reforming Whig administration on the structure and revenues of the of Ireland (with the Irish Church Temporalities to Bill. Tractarians criticised theological liberalism. Their interest in Christian origins caused some of them to reconsider the relationship of the Church of England with the Roman Catholic Church . Origin

8. The publication of Tracts for the Times, the first of which came in September 1833. It was entitled Thought on the Ministerial Commission, respectfully addressed to the Clergy. The publication of the tracts continued till 1841 with contributions from many hands. So, Newman who wrote some twenty-nine of them as Hugh Walker puts it "the soul of the Tracts." Publication

9. The Oxford movement is basically Religious movement but at the time very numerous literary work written in this movement. Some of writer like Hooker, Taylor and Tillotson was written on the Religious theme. The Oxford movement certainly belongs to the history of English religion more definitely than to the history of English literature; but it had great influence, outside its own definite members on the literary taste of its age. The Literary aspect of the movement

10. John Henry Newman was famouse prophenet of Tractarianism and who become famouse oxford priest of the Roman Catholic Church in england after writing his final Tracts. Newman was one of a number of Anglican clergy who were received into the Roman Catholic Church during the 1840s who were were influenced by, Tractarianism. Many of the people influenced by Tractarianism and Later on who became Roman Catholic. The Tractarian who become Roman Catholic