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Oxford Movement and the People of God Enslavement, Education, and Empire

King Benjamin J.
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198739562
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
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628 gr
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240 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Dybde
25 mm
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UP, 05
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Engelsk
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Innbundet
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320

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King Benjamin J.

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Benjamin J. King became Duncalf-Villavoso Professor of Church History, Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas in 2023. He previously taught Christian history for fourteen years at the School of Theology, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. He is author of Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers (2009), and co-editor with Frederick D. Aquino of Receptions of Newman (2015) and The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman (2018). He has also written numerous articles and lectured internationally. He has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church and serves on the editorial board of the journal Anglican and Episcopal History.

Oxford Movement and the People of God Enslavement, Education, and Empire

King Benjamin J.
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This book is very well written and tells its story in a way that is engaging and yet challenging for modern Anglicans to hear. Benjamin King demonstrates an outstanding ability in research and analysis which helps all Anglicans, especially those who are the successors of the Oxford Movement, to hear parts of the story which may not be so easy to hear. He is to be congratulated on a fine achievement in scholarship which adds significantly to the history of the Tractarians and the Oxford Movement. Despite the many books on the Tractarians and the Oxford Movement, this is a book that needs to be written and read.

Brian Douglas, Journal of Anglican Studies

In this highly original reappraisal of one of the most influential revival movements of the nineteenth-century Church of England and Anglican Communion, Benjamin King moves beyond the overly clericalized narrative of the standard histories. Through painstaking archival work, as well as deep reading in the primary literature of the period, he has assembled a dramatis personae of influential laity who sponsored the Oxford Movement and its later mutations. He also looks at the impact of Tractarians on the broader laity, and how this was understood theologically. Throughout the book there is a subtle interplay between the role which the leaders felt the laity ought to be playing in the church and the part that they actually played: it is a beautifully contextualised history of theology.

Mark Chapman, Theologische Literaturzeitung

Seeing the Church in danger from the government in 1833, the clergyman John Henry Newman wanted to 'look to the people' for help. The people of God were vital to the Tractarian (or Oxford) Movement which Newman, John Keble, and Edward Pusey led, and which hundreds of thousands of Anglican laypeople followed during the nineteenth century. The faithful were central to the movement's theological vision. Spiritually disciplined, the faithful would ensure that the Church's work in the world was ongoing. Properly educated, in schools for the middle classes and for the poor, at home and across the British Empire, the faithful would preserve the Church's teaching. Yet to opponents in the nineteenth century, and most scholars since, the movement seemed to magnify the role of the clergy of the Church of England at the expense of the people. This is to neglect not only Tractarian theology, but also lay Tractarians themselves, whether the few who were important figures in the British nation and Empire, or the many who took part in shaping society. The Oxford Movement and the People of God covers topics which are not usually encountered in studies of the Tractarians-enslavement, Empire, and English engagement in the American Civil War-as well as showing how their theology of the laity sheds new light on old topics-the Church of England's privileged place in the State, the Ritualist movement, and opposition to democracy. In none of these topics was the movement on what is called, with hindsight, 'the right side of history'. But the theological reasons, such as they were, why Tractarians took the positions they did are explored in chapters concerning providence, ecclesiology, consensus fidelium, episcopacy, and lay spirituality.
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The Oxford Movement, though concerned with the Church and theology, was important in the spheres of politics, society, and empire in nineteenth-century Britain. Considering that England defined itself as a Protest nation with an Established Church, many found the movement's vision of Anglicanism to be too catholic.
Les mer
Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Tracking down the Tractarian Laity 2: Providence and Colonial Slavery 3: Ecclesiology and Church Establishment 4: Consensus Fidelium and Synods 5: Episcopacy and Empire 6: Spirituality and the American Civil War Conclusion Bibliography
Les mer
Benjamin J. King became Duncalf-Villavoso Professor of Church History, Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas in 2023. He previously taught Christian history for fourteen years at the School of Theology, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. He is author of Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers (2009), and co-editor with Frederick D. Aquino of Receptions of Newman (2015) and The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman (2018). He has also written numerous articles and lectured internationally. He has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church and serves on the editorial board of the journal Anglican and Episcopal History.
Les mer
Addresses the involvement of the Oxford Movement in discussions of slavery, both in the British Empire and the American Confederacy Explores figures previously overlooked in accounts of the Oxford Movement and expands the view of who counts as a 'Tractarian' Examines the active role that lay Tractarians played in the Church on the basis of Tractarian theology
Les mer

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This book is very well written and tells its story in a way that is engaging and yet challenging for modern Anglicans to hear. Benjamin King demonstrates an outstanding ability in research and analysis which helps all Anglicans, especially those who are the successors of the Oxford Movement, to hear parts of the story which may not be so easy to hear. He is to be congratulated on a fine achievement in scholarship which adds significantly to the history of the Tractarians and the Oxford Movement. Despite the many books on the Tractarians and the Oxford Movement, this is a book that needs to be written and read.

Brian Douglas, Journal of Anglican Studies

In this highly original reappraisal of one of the most influential revival movements of the nineteenth-century Church of England and Anglican Communion, Benjamin King moves beyond the overly clericalized narrative of the standard histories. Through painstaking archival work, as well as deep reading in the primary literature of the period, he has assembled a dramatis personae of influential laity who sponsored the Oxford Movement and its later mutations. He also looks at the impact of Tractarians on the broader laity, and how this was understood theologically. Throughout the book there is a subtle interplay between the role which the leaders felt the laity ought to be playing in the church and the part that they actually played: it is a beautifully contextualised history of theology.

Mark Chapman, Theologische Literaturzeitung

Seeing the Church in danger from the government in 1833, the clergyman John Henry Newman wanted to 'look to the people' for help. The people of God were vital to the Tractarian (or Oxford) Movement which Newman, John Keble, and Edward Pusey led, and which hundreds of thousands of Anglican laypeople followed during the nineteenth century. The faithful were central to the movement's theological vision. Spiritually disciplined, the faithful would ensure that the Church's work in the world was ongoing. Properly educated, in schools for the middle classes and for the poor, at home and across the British Empire, the faithful would preserve the Church's teaching. Yet to opponents in the nineteenth century, and most scholars since, the movement seemed to magnify the role of the clergy of the Church of England at the expense of the people. This is to neglect not only Tractarian theology, but also lay Tractarians themselves, whether the few who were important figures in the British nation and Empire, or the many who took part in shaping society. The Oxford Movement and the People of God covers topics which are not usually encountered in studies of the Tractarians-enslavement, Empire, and English engagement in the American Civil War-as well as showing how their theology of the laity sheds new light on old topics-the Church of England's privileged place in the State, the Ritualist movement, and opposition to democracy. In none of these topics was the movement on what is called, with hindsight, 'the right side of history'. But the theological reasons, such as they were, why Tractarians took the positions they did are explored in chapters concerning providence, ecclesiology, consensus fidelium, episcopacy, and lay spirituality.
Les mer
The Oxford Movement, though concerned with the Church and theology, was important in the spheres of politics, society, and empire in nineteenth-century Britain. Considering that England defined itself as a Protest nation with an Established Church, many found the movement's vision of Anglicanism to be too catholic.
Les mer
Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Tracking down the Tractarian Laity 2: Providence and Colonial Slavery 3: Ecclesiology and Church Establishment 4: Consensus Fidelium and Synods 5: Episcopacy and Empire 6: Spirituality and the American Civil War Conclusion Bibliography
Les mer
Benjamin J. King became Duncalf-Villavoso Professor of Church History, Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas in 2023. He previously taught Christian history for fourteen years at the School of Theology, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. He is author of Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers (2009), and co-editor with Frederick D. Aquino of Receptions of Newman (2015) and The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman (2018). He has also written numerous articles and lectured internationally. He has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church and serves on the editorial board of the journal Anglican and Episcopal History.
Les mer
Addresses the involvement of the Oxford Movement in discussions of slavery, both in the British Empire and the American Confederacy Explores figures previously overlooked in accounts of the Oxford Movement and expands the view of who counts as a 'Tractarian' Examines the active role that lay Tractarians played in the Church on the basis of Tractarian theology
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198739562
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
628 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
King Benjamin J.

Biografisk notat

Benjamin J. King became Duncalf-Villavoso Professor of Church History, Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas in 2023. He previously taught Christian history for fourteen years at the School of Theology, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. He is author of Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers (2009), and co-editor with Frederick D. Aquino of Receptions of Newman (2015) and The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman (2018). He has also written numerous articles and lectured internationally. He has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church and serves on the editorial board of the journal Anglican and Episcopal History.

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