Stewart J. Brown

The Oxford movement : Europe and the wider world 1830-1930

Notes on contributors Abbreviations Introduction Stewart J. Brown and Peter Nockles Prelude 1. The Oxford Movement in an Oxford college: Oriel as the cradle of Tractarianism Peter Nockles Part I. Beyond England: The Oxford Movement in Britain, the Empire and the United States: 2. Isaac Williams and Welsh Tractarian theology John Boneham 3. Scotland and the Oxford Movement Stewart J. Brown 4. The Oxford Movement and the British Empire: Newman, Manning and the 1841 Jerusalem Bishopric Rowan Strong 5. The Australian Bishops and the Oxford Movement Austin Cooper 6. Anglo-Catholicism in Australia, c.1860-1960 David Hilliard 7. The Oxford Movement and the United States Peter Nockles Part II. The Oxford Movement and Continental Europe: 8. Europe and the Oxford Movement Geoffrey Rowell 9. Pusey, Tholuck and the reception of the Oxford Movement in Germany Albrecht Geck 10. The Oxford Movement: reception and perception in Catholic circles in nineteenth-century Belgium Jan De Maeyer and Karel Strobbe 11. Separated brethren: French Catholics and the Oxford Movement Jeremy Morris 12. The Oxford Movement, Jerusalem and the Eastern question Mark Chapman 13. Ignaz von Dollinger and the Anglicans Angela Berlis 14. Anglicans, Old Catholics and Reformed Catholics in late nineteenth-century Europe Nigel Yates Index.

Hugh Blair, the sentiments and preaching the enlightenment in Scotland

The five volumes of sermons by the Edinburgh Church of Scotland minister, Hugh Blair, represented one of the most successful publishing projects of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. According to the Critical Review of 1807, Blair’s sermons were (apart from the Spectator), “the most popular work in the English language.” As Richard Sher has demonstrated in his monumental The Enlightenment and the Book, the popularity of Blair’s sermons, published between 1777 and 1801, was “astonishing.” By 1790, the first two volumes of his sermons had gone through 15 editions. The sermons were soon translated into French, German, Dutch and other European languages. Blair received no less that £2765 for the 5 volumes, and probably far more in the form of unrecorded “presents” from the publisher. He became one of the wealthiest clergymen in the Church of Scotland, and the first to maintain a private carriage; he had two homes, a large library and left some £4000 in bonds at his death. For Anne Matheson, only John Tillotson in England could rival Blair as the most published sermon-writer of the eighteenth century. What accounts for the extraordinary popularity of Blair’s sermons? And what does this popularity tell us about the nature of the later Enlightenment in Scotland, and especially about the place of sensibility and the passions in later Enlightenment thought? While no doubt some of the volumes sat prominently displayed (but unread) in fashionable homes as a sign of good taste and religious moderation, the continuing high sales and frequent translations suggests that the sermons were also widely read and appreciated. What was it in the style and content of these sermons that attracted so many readers in the later eighteenth century? Hugh Blair was a prominent Presbyterian clergyman and the first Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh. He was one of the inner circle of Moderate literati – the group of urban clerical intellectuals portrayed so vividly by the historian Richard Sher – who provided leadership in the Scottish established Church, universities and civic society from the 1750s, helping to move Scottish society away from the rigid and intolerant Calvinism of the seventeenth century to a religious ethos that accepted, even embraced, social improvement, polite manners, toleration and new approaches to the study of nature and society. He was an exemplar of what is now termed the “religious Enlightenment,” a movement of Christian and Jewish thinkers across Europe and North America who accepted the priorities of the Enlightenment – the elevated view of the capacities of human reason, confidence in the methods of the new science and critical attitudes towards traditional authorities – while at the same time retaining faith in a transcendent God, a belief that the Scriptures contained divine revelation, and confidence in a providential ordering of the universe. For thinkers of the religious Enlightenment, there was a middle

W. T. Stead and the Civic Church, 1886-1895: The Vision Behind ‘If Christ Came to Chicago!’

In 1894 the prominent English journalist and religious visionary, W. T. Stead, published If Christ came to Chicago!, a work of investigative journalism focusing on the problems of the modern city. The book constituted a manifesto for Steads notion of the ‘Civic Church’, a religious movement through which he hoped to revive a sense of national religion, and unite churches and philanthropic associations around a shared commitment to follow Christs example of social service. This article explores the development of Steads ‘Civic Church’ ideal and his campaign to achieve this in Britains urban-industrial society between 1886 and 1895.

The Oxford Movement: Index

Notes on contributors Abbreviations Introduction Stewart J. Brown and Peter Nockles Prelude 1. The Oxford Movement in an Oxford college: Oriel as the cradle of Tractarianism Peter Nockles Part I. Beyond England: The Oxford Movement in Britain, the Empire and the United States: 2. Isaac Williams and Welsh Tractarian theology John Boneham 3. Scotland and the Oxford Movement Stewart J. Brown 4. The Oxford Movement and the British Empire: Newman, Manning and the 1841 Jerusalem Bishopric Rowan Strong 5. The Australian Bishops and the Oxford Movement Austin Cooper 6. Anglo-Catholicism in Australia, c.1860-1960 David Hilliard 7. The Oxford Movement and the United States Peter Nockles Part II. The Oxford Movement and Continental Europe: 8. Europe and the Oxford Movement Geoffrey Rowell 9. Pusey, Tholuck and the reception of the Oxford Movement in Germany Albrecht Geck 10. The Oxford Movement: reception and perception in Catholic circles in nineteenth-century Belgium Jan De Maeyer and Karel Strobbe 11. Separated brethren: French Catholics and the Oxford Movement Jeremy Morris 12. The Oxford Movement, Jerusalem and the Eastern question Mark Chapman 13. Ignaz von Dollinger and the Anglicans Angela Berlis 14. Anglicans, Old Catholics and Reformed Catholics in late nineteenth-century Europe Nigel Yates Index.

The Oxford Movement: Beyond England

Notes on contributors Abbreviations Introduction Stewart J. Brown and Peter Nockles Prelude 1. The Oxford Movement in an Oxford college: Oriel as the cradle of Tractarianism Peter Nockles Part I. Beyond England: The Oxford Movement in Britain, the Empire and the United States: 2. Isaac Williams and Welsh Tractarian theology John Boneham 3. Scotland and the Oxford Movement Stewart J. Brown 4. The Oxford Movement and the British Empire: Newman, Manning and the 1841 Jerusalem Bishopric Rowan Strong 5. The Australian Bishops and the Oxford Movement Austin Cooper 6. Anglo-Catholicism in Australia, c.1860-1960 David Hilliard 7. The Oxford Movement and the United States Peter Nockles Part II. The Oxford Movement and Continental Europe: 8. Europe and the Oxford Movement Geoffrey Rowell 9. Pusey, Tholuck and the reception of the Oxford Movement in Germany Albrecht Geck 10. The Oxford Movement: reception and perception in Catholic circles in nineteenth-century Belgium Jan De Maeyer and Karel Strobbe 11. Separated brethren: French Catholics and the Oxford Movement Jeremy Morris 12. The Oxford Movement, Jerusalem and the Eastern question Mark Chapman 13. Ignaz von Dollinger and the Anglicans Angela Berlis 14. Anglicans, Old Catholics and Reformed Catholics in late nineteenth-century Europe Nigel Yates Index.

The Oxford Movement: Contents

Notes on contributors Abbreviations Introduction Stewart J. Brown and Peter Nockles Prelude 1. The Oxford Movement in an Oxford college: Oriel as the cradle of Tractarianism Peter Nockles Part I. Beyond England: The Oxford Movement in Britain, the Empire and the United States: 2. Isaac Williams and Welsh Tractarian theology John Boneham 3. Scotland and the Oxford Movement Stewart J. Brown 4. The Oxford Movement and the British Empire: Newman, Manning and the 1841 Jerusalem Bishopric Rowan Strong 5. The Australian Bishops and the Oxford Movement Austin Cooper 6. Anglo-Catholicism in Australia, c.1860-1960 David Hilliard 7. The Oxford Movement and the United States Peter Nockles Part II. The Oxford Movement and Continental Europe: 8. Europe and the Oxford Movement Geoffrey Rowell 9. Pusey, Tholuck and the reception of the Oxford Movement in Germany Albrecht Geck 10. The Oxford Movement: reception and perception in Catholic circles in nineteenth-century Belgium Jan De Maeyer and Karel Strobbe 11. Separated brethren: French Catholics and the Oxford Movement Jeremy Morris 12. The Oxford Movement, Jerusalem and the Eastern question Mark Chapman 13. Ignaz von Dollinger and the Anglicans Angela Berlis 14. Anglicans, Old Catholics and Reformed Catholics in late nineteenth-century Europe Nigel Yates Index.

The Oxford Movement: The Oxford Movement and Continental Europe

Notes on contributors Abbreviations Introduction Stewart J. Brown and Peter Nockles Prelude 1. The Oxford Movement in an Oxford college: Oriel as the cradle of Tractarianism Peter Nockles Part I. Beyond England: The Oxford Movement in Britain, the Empire and the United States: 2. Isaac Williams and Welsh Tractarian theology John Boneham 3. Scotland and the Oxford Movement Stewart J. Brown 4. The Oxford Movement and the British Empire: Newman, Manning and the 1841 Jerusalem Bishopric Rowan Strong 5. The Australian Bishops and the Oxford Movement Austin Cooper 6. Anglo-Catholicism in Australia, c.1860-1960 David Hilliard 7. The Oxford Movement and the United States Peter Nockles Part II. The Oxford Movement and Continental Europe: 8. Europe and the Oxford Movement Geoffrey Rowell 9. Pusey, Tholuck and the reception of the Oxford Movement in Germany Albrecht Geck 10. The Oxford Movement: reception and perception in Catholic circles in nineteenth-century Belgium Jan De Maeyer and Karel Strobbe 11. Separated brethren: French Catholics and the Oxford Movement Jeremy Morris 12. The Oxford Movement, Jerusalem and the Eastern question Mark Chapman 13. Ignaz von Dollinger and the Anglicans Angela Berlis 14. Anglicans, Old Catholics and Reformed Catholics in late nineteenth-century Europe Nigel Yates Index.