The Oxford Movement

 In July of 1833 Anglican clergyman at Oxford University sought to restore Roman Catholic traditions to the practices of the Church of England. John Keble, John Henry Newman, and Edward Pusey are known as the founders of this movement. The protestant reformation that the Church of England experiences lost some of the rituals of the Roman Catholic church, and these men believed that bringing them back would renew spirituality in the Church of England. They believed that the fact that the church and state were getting closer together unnecessarily  politicized the religion. John Keble's speech called "On the National Apostasy," John Henry Newman's pamphlets "Tracts for the Times," and Edward Pusey's "The Library of the Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church" are all significant texts to the movement.

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What was the Oxford Movement? - Pusey House

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Summer 1833

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