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There are 21 critical essays on Oxford Movement.

Critical Essays on Oxford Movement
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Critical Essay by Peter Nockles
15,831 words, approx. 53 pages
In the essay that follows, Nockles discusses the Anglican response to the publication of Newman 's Tract 90, which marked a crucial episode in Newman 's conversion to Catholicism and in the popular attitude toward Tractarianism.
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Critical Essay by John Shelton Reed
14,963 words, approx. 50 pages
In the following essay, Reed assesses the impact of Tractarianism on Anglo-Catholicism in nineteenth-century Britain.
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Critical Essay by Peter Nockles
12,941 words, approx. 43 pages
In the essay that follows, Nockles emphasizes that the Oxford Movement is best understood in its historical context and claims that Tractarian spirituality had deep continuities with earlier Church revival movements'
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Critical Essay by Americo D. Lapati
10,059 words, approx. 34 pages
In the essay that follows, Lapati chronicles Newman's involvement in the Oxford Movement from 1833 until his conversion to Catholicism in 1845.
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Critical Essay by Martin J. Svaglic
9,298 words, approx. 31 pages
In the excerpt that follows, Svaglic introduces Newman's Apologia by locating the work in the larger context of Newman's conversion and his intellectual conflict with Charles Kingsley.
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Critical Essay by John L. Morrison
9,125 words, approx. 30 pages
In the essay that follows, Morrison examines the political conservatism of the Oxford Movement, which called for strong protection of the Church against government intervention and the renewed sanctity of the Anglican Church; he traces the changes in public opinion of the movement by reviewing journals and periodicals of the time.
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Critical Essay by John Griffin
8,657 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Griffin argues that Keble 's high status in Christian scholarship is somewhat inflated, given his inconsistent positions and cautious activism; however, Griffin also notes that Keble was not the egotistical and rigid figure depicted by his critics.
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Critical Essay by Charles Frederick Harrold
8,625 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Harrold contends that the primary goal of the Oxford Movement was a rejuvenation of the "apostolic conception of Christianity, " a radical reaction against European secularism and liberalism.
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Critical Essay by Geoffrey Tillotson
8,582 words, approx. 29 pages
In the essay that follows, Tillotson contends that Newman has been undervalued for his literary abilities—his clarity, attention to detail, and use of imagery.
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Raymond Chapman
8,035 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Chapman contends that the Oxford Movement emerged in an environment of intense religious controversy between Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism in England.
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Critical Essay by Piers Brendon
7,575 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Brendon argues that the figure of Hurrell Froude reflects the controversy, passion, and piety that characterizes the Tractarian Movement as a whole, particularly as manifested in his Remains and the uproar surrounding its publication.
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Critical Essay by John R. Griffin
6,618 words, approx. 22 pages
In the essay that follows, Griffin claims that Newman 's 1845 conversion to Catholicism generated a series of attacks on and misrepresentations of his thought by Anglican scholars, which remain dominant in some critical interpretations.
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Thomas Arnold
6,548 words, approx. 22 pages
The father of English man of letters Matthew Arnold, Thomas Arnold was a distinguished scholar of classical literature and Christian doctrine. In the following essay, he defends the Bampton Lectures of Dr. Hampden, who criticized the perpetuation of Catholic traditions within the Anglican Church, against the accusations of "rationalism " by the proponents of the Oxford Movement. This essay, deemed excessively pro-Catholic by the critic's peers upon its publication, nearly cost Arnold h...
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Critical Essay by Frederick H. Borsch
6,344 words, approx. 21 pages
In the essay that follows, Borsch describes the most significant tenets espoused by the Oxford Movement—primarily their emphasis on moral seriousness, adherence to traditional dogma, and authenticity of faith.
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Timothy Corcoran, S. J.
6,191 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Corcoran examines Newman's late essay "Discourses on University Education," an elaboration of the methods and goals of liberal education, which "must not be 'burdened' or 'implicated' with virtue or religion."
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Kenneth M. Peck
5,677 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Peck discusses the significance of the Oxford Movement in the United States, which, as he argues, was largely isolated to the religious leadership, in contrast to the widespread controversy in Britain.
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Critical Essay by M. H. Abrams
5,331 words, approx. 18 pages
In the essay that follows, Abrams examines John Keble's Lectures on Poetry, in which he links the cathartic function of poetry to primitive instincts, in a prefiguration of psychoanalytic interpretations of the role of literature in human existence.
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Joseph Ellis Baker
4,949 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Baker discusses Newman 's novels, Loss and Gain and Callista as partly autobiographical reflections on spiritual faith as an "inner drama. "
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Critical Essay by Owen Chadwick
4,631 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, Chadwick evaluates Newman's devotional poetry, in its reflection of the theological principles of the Oxford Movement.
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Critical Essay by Margaret M. Maison
4,055 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, Maison surveys the Anglican novels of the Victorian period, with particular consideration of Tractarian fiction.
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Critical Essay by William T. Noon
2,625 words, approx. 9 pages
In the essay that follows, Noon characterizes Newman's Apologia as a "history of his religious opinions" and contends that this pioneering work stands as part of a Christian tradition of self-reflection.


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