A Short History of the Oxford Movement (Classic Reprint)

Oxford Movement, to the famous book by Dean Church, which, though it only tells the story for the first twelve years (1833-45) is a model for all who would write truthfully and fairly about the Movement as a whole ;and Dean Church sbook originally fired me, more than twenty years ago, with a love for the Revival of which it tells. The story of the Ceremonial Revival has never, so far as I know, been told very fully before. The only systematic account of it known to me is in the evidence given by the present Archbishop of Canterbury before the Ecclesiastical Discipline Commission in February, 1905 ;which is of special value for the period after 1854, when the prosecutions began ;the earlier period is treated more slightly. His Grace laid some stress on an article by J. W. Croker in The Quarterly Review for May, 1843, on Rubrics and Ritual in the Church of England. That article, it appears from Mr. Croker spapers, owed a great deal to his neighbour, Samuel Wilberforce, then Archdeacon of Surrey ;and in the light of the facts recorded in this book it is seen to be very imperfectly in formed as to the Movement with which it deals. Mr.
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