Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Historiographical introduction
- 1 Church and state: the politics of High Churchmanship
- 2 Antiquity and the rule of faith
- 3 Ecclesiology: the apostolic paradigm
- 4 Spirituality, liturgy and worship
- 5 The economy of salvation: sacraments and Justification
- 6 The old High Churchmen and Tractarians in historical relation
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Historiographical introduction
- 1 Church and state: the politics of High Churchmanship
- 2 Antiquity and the rule of faith
- 3 Ecclesiology: the apostolic paradigm
- 4 Spirituality, liturgy and worship
- 5 The economy of salvation: sacraments and Justification
- 6 The old High Churchmen and Tractarians in historical relation
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
The research for this study commenced in the autumn of 1976 when I was a postgraduate student at Worcester College, and subsequently St Cross College, Oxford. The present work derives from part of a thesis entitled ‘Continuity and Change in Anglican High Churchmanship in Britain, 1792–1850’ for which the Theology Faculty of the University of Oxford awarded me the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1982.
The extensive use made of the thesis by scholars, particularly students of the Oxford Modern History School Special Subject ‘Church, State and Society, 1829–54’, along with the repeated encouragement of one of my examiners Dr John Walsh, led me to undertake a thorough revision and recasting of the work for publication. My contribution to volume vi of the History of the University of Oxford, focusing on the Oxford Movement in its academic context, delayed the process of revision, but proved an invaluable prelude to that task, deepening and broadening my ideas and arguments. Much fresh research has also been conducted on the more theological aspects of the subject, with greater attention accorded to the later Hanoverian period. There is also an additional chapter on the sacraments incorporating discussion on the baptismal and eucharistic controversies of the 1850s and a radically revised and largely new chapter on spirituality.
In writing this book I have incurred innumerable debts of gratitude to various individuals. Thanks must go to my long-suffering editor, Alex Wright of Cambridge University Press. It was his initiative, foresight and enthusiasm back in 1988 that set in progress plans for the publication of a revised version of my dissertation.
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- The Oxford Movement in ContextAnglican High Churchmanship, 1760–1857, pp. xi - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994