The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement reflects the rich and diverse nature of scholarship on the Oxford Movement and provides pointers to further study and new lines of enquiry. Part I considers the origins and historical context of the Oxford Movement. These chapters include studies of the legacy of the seventeenth-century 'Caroline Divines' and of the nature and influence of the eighteenth and early nineteenth-century High Church movement within the Church of England. Part II focuses on the beginnings and early years of the Oxford Movement, paying particular attention to the people, the distinctive Oxford context, and the ecclesiastical controversies that inspired the birth of the Movement and its early intellectual and religious expressions. In Part III the theme shifts from early history of the Oxford Movement to its distinctive theological developments. This section analyses Tractarian views of religious knowledge and the notion of 'ethos'; the distinctive Tractarian views of tradition and development; and Tractarian ecclesiology, including ideas of the via media and the 'branch theory' of the Church. The years of crisis for the Oxford Movement between 1841 and 1845, including John Henry Newman's departure from the Church of England, are covered in Part IV. Part V then proceeds to a consideration of the broader cultural expressions and influences of the Oxford Movement. Part VI focuses on the world outside England and examines the profound impact of the Oxford Movement on Churches beyond the English heartland, as well as on the formation of a world-wide Anglicanism. In Part VII, the contributors show how the Oxford Movement remained a vital force in the twentieth century, finding expression in the Anglo-Catholic Congresses and in the Prayer Book Controversy of the 1920s within the Church of England. The Handbook draws to a close, in Part VIII, with a set of more generalised reflections on the impact of the Oxford Movement, including chapters on the judgement of the converts to Roman Catholicism over the Movement's loss of its original character, on the spiritual life and efforts of those who remained within the Anglican Church to keep Tractarian ideas alive, on the engagement of the Movement with Liberal Protestantism and Liberal Catholicism, and on the often contentious historiography of the Oxford Movement which continued to be a source of church party division as late as the centennial commemorations of the Movement in 1933. An 'Afterword' chapter assesses the continuing influence of the Oxford Movement in the world Anglican Communion today, with special references to some of the conflicts and controversies that have shaken Anglicanism since the 1960s.

About the Author
Stewart J. Brown is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Edinburgh. He has lectured widely in Europe, China, Australia, India, and the USA, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He served as co-editor of the Scottish Historical Review from 1993 to 1999. His publications include The Oxford Movement: Europe and the Wider World 1830-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and The National Churches of England, Ireland, and Scotland 1801-46 (Oxford University Press, 2001). Peter B. Nockles was formerly a Librarian and Curator, Rare Books & Maps, Special Collections, the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, and a one-time Visiting Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford. He is an Honorary Research Fellow, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester. He is the author of The Oxford Movement in Context (1994) and co-edited with Stewart J. Brown, The Oxford Movement: Europe and the Wider World 1830-1930 (2012). He was a contributor to a History of Canterbury Cathedral (1995), to volume 6 of the History of the University of Oxford (1997), to Oriel College: A History (2013), and to Receptions of Newman (ed. Frederick D. Aquino and Benjamin J. King, 2015). James Pereiro is a Research Fellow in the University of Navarra. He is a member of Oxford University History Faculty and has published extensively on nineteenth-century ecclesiastical history. He is the author of Ethos' and the Oxford Movement: At the Heart of Tractarianism (Oxford University Press, 2007) and Theories of Development in the Oxford Movement (Gracewing Publishing, 2015).

Reviews
Indeed, this is a fine book which offers much writing of commitment, substance, warmth and insight. * Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *
To read The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement more or less from cover to cover has been a hugely rewarding experience ... It often felt like a privilege to be guided, by specialist scholars who also write clearly and elegantly, through the ideas and events that profoundly shaped ... the modern Church of England and the Anglican Communion. However well we may think that we know the scene, we will still have much to learn academically and to gain spiritually from the careful study of this comprehensive, authoritative and impressively presented compendium. It is now the best place to begin the study of the Tractarians and their quasisuccessors the Anglo-Catholics; it constitutes the centre of gravity for research agendas into the controversies, personalities and perplexities of this formative era of modern Anglicanism. * Paul Avis, Ecclesiology *
The text truly shines as a handbook for a movement, which extended beyond the thought of anyone person, impacted by the broader culture for generatins, and whose remnants remain visable. * Eric Lafferty, Newman Studies Journal *
The Handbook is an outstanding and valuable addition to the history of the Oxford Movement. * Ian McCormack, New Directions *
The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement is an essential read for anyone seriously interested in the subject... Professor Brown is renowned for his work exploring the religious history of all four nations within the 19th-century UK. * Revd Dr William Whyte (University of Oxford), Church Times *
[A] remarkably rich and varied collection, which takes the study of the Oxford Movement well beyond the all-too-familiar hagiographies or narrow focus on a few notable individuals. Instead, these authors seek to explore the phenomenon in all its breadth and variety. As an account of the current state of play in the field, it is unsurpassed. As a prompt and provocation for future work, it is likely to have a long-lasting influence. * William Whyte, Church Times *
The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement is a remarkable and timely edited volume: remarkable for the breadth and depth of this survey of such an important nineteenth-century ecclesial movement; timely due to the ongoing soul-searching that continues in the present Anglican communion... [T]he essays...will make an important impact that ought to be felt by scholars and Anglicans worldwide. * James M. Arcadi, Reading Religion *



Book Information
ISBN 9780199580187
Author Stewart J. Brown
Format Hardback
Page Count 668
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 253mm * 184mm * 43mm