This unit will explore various aspects of the Oxford Movement. Special attention will be focussed on its historic context, the interactions of the leading participants, their literary contribution, friendly and hostile reactions to the movement, and finally its impact on Western Christendom.

Undergraduate Prerequisites

Graduate and Postgraduate Prerequisites (CH339)

CH350 or CH351

Requirements

2 hours per week

Undergraduate Assessment

Graduate and Postgraduate Assessment (CH339)

Equivalent to 4,000 words.
See Coursework Assessment for Graduate and Postgraduate Students.

Bibliography

• Allitt, Patrick. Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals turn to Rome. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
• Chadwick, Owen, ed. The Mind of the Oxford Movement. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1971.
• Chandler, Michael. An Introduction to the Oxford Movement. London: SPCK, 2003.
• Chapman. Raymond. Firmly I Believe: An Oxford Movement Reader. London: Canterbury, 2006.
• Herring, George. What Was the Oxford Movement? London: Continuum, 2002.
• Nockles, Peter B. The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760–1857. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Pereiro, James. “Ethos” and the Oxford  Movement: At the Heart of Tractarianism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Turner, Frank M. John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
• Yates Nigel. Anglican Ritualism in Victorian Britain 1830–1910. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.