Paper Name : VICTORIAN LITERATUREPresentation Topic: THE OXFORD MOVEMENT

Sem : 2Name: Solanki Pintu V

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M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSUTY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

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.

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.

                              THE BACKGROUND :

Oxford movement was not political movement but as it opposed liberalism in all its aspect, the Oxford leaders derived much from the philosophy of conservatism.

Men behind the movement

 John Keble John Henry Newman

He was the originator of this movement. He was the professor of poetry at oxford. He started this movement. But he was a Saintly, simple, quiet, modest and sweet natured simplicity had its beauty and its charm.

He was the true soul and spirit behind the Oxford movement. He was a genius of broad sweep of wider range. He began as a protestant and ended as a roman catholic.

This movement had following particular aims behind it.

1.  To bring back the dignity of church

2.  To oppose the state authority over the church

3.  To oppose liberalism in all aspect of life

4.  To restore the old customs of the church

Aims of this movement:

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 final reception into the Roman Catholic Church in 1845, followed by Henry Edward Manning in 1851, had a profound effect upon the Movement.

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.

The failure    The Oxford Movement failed because its appeal to the authority of a Catholic tradition was not of sufficient defense of the catholic religion against the attack of scientific and the historical criticism.

Influence on next generation

The Oxford movement was definitely a religious movement but it had influence on the literary taste of its age.

It inspired the poetry of the Pre-Raphaelites,

Though some of them were indifferent to its theological implications it influenced the poetry of D.G.Rossetti, G.M. Hopkins, Coventry Patmore, R.W. Dixon

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