SOURCE: "Froude's Remains," in Hurrell Froude and The Oxford Movement, Paul Elek, 1974, pp. 180-97.

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.

Froude's Remains constituted a stumbling-block to High Churchmen: to Evangelicals it was not so much foolishness as down-right heresy. Its effect in both cases was to divide. It pushed the Oxford Movement towards a new radicalism, which may have been acceptable to the leadership and to Young Turks like Ward and Oakeley, but was very far from being palatable to a considerable number of its more staid followers. Establishment men like Edward Churton, the biographer of Joshua Watson, were deeply shocked by the Remains. Churton told Pusey that 'there are sentences and even pages of that...