The Oxford Movement; Twelve Years, 1833-1845

"On 14th July 1833," we read in Cardinal Newman's _Apologia_, "Mr. Keble preached the assize sermon in the University Pulpit. It was published under the title of _National Apost...

The names of those who took the lead in this movement are familiar--Keble, Newman, Pusey, Hugh James Rose, William Palmer. Much has been written about them by friends and enemie...

The formation of a strong Romanising section in the Tractarian party was obviously damaging to the party and dangerous to the Church. It was _pro tanto_ a verification of the fu...

The events of February were a great shock. The routine of Oxford had been broken as it had never been broken by the fiercest strifes before. Condemnations had been before passed...

No. 90, with the explanations of it given by Mr. Newman and the other leaders of the movement, might have raised an important and not very easy question, but one in no way diffe...

The first seven years of the movement, as it is said in the _Apologia_, had been years of prosperity. There had been mistakes; there had been opposition; there had been distrust...

By the end of 1835, the band of friends, whom great fears and great hopes for the Church had united, and others who sympathised with them both within and outside the University,...

If only the Oxford authorities could have had patience--if only they could have known more largely and more truly the deep changes that were at work everywhere, and how things w...

While the movement was making itself felt as a moral force, without a parallel in Oxford for more than two centuries, and was impressing deeply and permanently some of the most...

The year 1841, though it had begun in storm, and though signs were not wanting of further disturbance, was at Oxford, outwardly at least, a peaceable one. A great change had hap...

What is called the Oxford or Tractarian movement began, without doubt, in a vigorous effort for the immediate defence of the Church against serious dangers, arising from the vio...

Thus had been started--hurriedly perhaps, yet not without counting the cost--a great enterprise, which had for its object to rouse the Church from its lethargy, and to strengthe...

The stage on which what is called the Oxford movement ran through its course had a special character of its own, unlike the circumstances in which other religious efforts had do...

The Hampden controversy had contributed to bring to the front a question, which from the first starting of the Tracts had made itself felt, but which now became a pressing one....

The proceedings about No. 90 were a declaration of war on the part of the Oxford authorities against the Tractarian party. The suspicions, alarms, antipathies, jealousies, which...

In the early days of the movement, among Mr. Newman's greatest friends, and much in his confidence, were two Fellows of Trinity--a college which never forgot that Newman had onc...

Charles Marriott was a man who was drawn into the movement, almost in spite of himself, by the attraction of the character of the leaders, the greatness of its object, and the p...

"Depend upon it," an earnest High Churchman of the Joshua Watson type had said to one of Mr. Newman's friends, who was a link between the old Churchmanship and the new--"depend...

Long before the Oxford movement was thought of, or had any definite shape, a number of its characteristic principles and ideas had taken strong hold of the mind of a man of grea...