Peter Nockles
Biographic Data
| ID | 5147067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Nockles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Nockles |
| SIGNATURE | NOCKLES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685–1720, by William Gibson
Journal Article Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685–1720, by William Gibson Get access Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685–1720, by William Gibson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021; pp. 256. £75). Peter Nockles Peter Nockles Manchester, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, ceac198, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceac198 Publi…
Saint John Henry Newman
It is clear that interest in the life and writings of Cardinal John Henry Newman transcends the various Christian denominations and indeed extends beyond that. The Symposium held at St Margaret’s Westminster on 18 October 2019 to celebrate Newman’s Canonisation was testimony to this fact. This in itself is significant surprising given Newman’s well known ability to become a focus of controversy and to be a sometimes polarising figure during his o…
The Catholic Church and the Campaign for Emancipation in Ireland and England, by Ambrose Macaulay
Ambrose Macaulay, author of The Holy See, British Policy and the Plan of Campaign in Ireland, 1885–93 (2002), is an authority on the complex political and diplomatic interplay of forces with which the Catholic Church in the British Isles had to deal in its struggle to win religious and political rights for Catholics. His mastery of the details of this recurring and ongoing struggle is evident in this new book. Macaulay shows how Catholics in Irel…
The British Critic
In this chapter the author examines the origins, Tractarian takeover, and ensuing commentary of the British Critic magazine, and the significant controversy which it was to generate. The chapter argues that attention to the Movement’s periodical journalism demonstrates the anxiety of John Henry Newman and others to secure a polemical platform beyond the Tracts for the Times, specifically for the discussion of political and social affairs. It addi…
Tradition and Development
Tradition as source of religious knowledge had been obscured since the Reformation by the Protestant claim that the Bible, and only the Bible, was the source of Christian knowledge. The use and abuse of Tradition in religious controversy had led Protestants to distrust it. The end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries brought a rediscovery of the concept and an enhanced value to Tradition in the social and religious spheres.…
Tractarian Theology in Verse and Sermon
In this chapter the author explores the role of poetry and sermons in propagating Tractarian theological ideas. The use of these two distinct genres was closely connected to the principle of reserve, a theory of knowledge holding that religious truth ought to be conveyed in accordance with the recipient’s ability to receive it. While poetry allowed a more detailed theological reflection, sermons offered a better opportunity for practical teaching…
The Prayer Book Controversy
In this chapter the author examines the role of Anglo-Catholicism in the revision process between the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline and the rejection of the 1928 Prayer Book in Parliament. The early twentieth-century project of Prayer Book revision in England in some ways indicated the growing recognition and acceptance of Anglo-Catholicism within the wider Church. However, as the process became increasingly controversial with del…
Did the Oxford Movement Die in 1851?
The conversion of a considerable number of supporters of the Oxford Movement between 1845 and 1851 raised a chorus of condemnations, but also led to the publication of the individual reasons which had led the converts to Rome. In such writings, the converts insisted that the path they had taken was the result of mature consideration and of inescapable dictates of conscience: to remain in the Church of England, they claimed, would have endangered …
The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement
The Handbook provides a comprehensive exploration of a great renewal movement in Christian history, which has profoundly influenced not only the world Anglican Communion, but other Church traditions as well. Commencing with the Movement’s roots within both High Church and evangelical Anglicanism, and its genesis within the University of Oxford and notably Oriel College, the Handbook considers the relatively short period when the Movement could pr…
Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain
Journal Article Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain: From the Restoration to the Twentieth Century. Essays in Honour of Keith Robbins, ed. Stewart J. Brown, Frances Knight and John Morgan-Guy Get access Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain: From the Restoration to the Twentieth Century. Essays in Honour of Keith Robbins, ed. Stewart J. Brown, Frances Knight and John Morgan-Guy (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013; pp. 281. £65). Peter Nockles Pet…
Reactions to Robert Southey's Life of Wesley (1820) Reconsidered
This article analyses the varying contemporary and later responses to Robert Southey's Life of Wesley (1820). Acclaimed for its literary qualities, its appearance in the shadow of the Evangelical Revival and the growing Methodist movement meant that its biographical perspective was long obscured by the nineteenth-century ‘Wesley legend’. Methodist reviewers such as Henry Moore and Richard Watson, repelled by his critique of ‘enthusiasm’ as well a…
The Oxford Movement as Religious Revival and Resurgence
It was ‘one of the most wonderful revivals in church history’, to be compared to the religious revival in the ‘days of Josiah towards the close of the Jewish monarchy’. This extravagant comment referred not to the Evangelical Revival of the eighteenth century, that paradigm of all religious revivals, but to something which the author, writing in 1912, characterized as ‘the Catholic Revival’. The idea of a revival or resurgence in either the indiv…
Church or Protestant Sect? The Church of Ireland, High Churchmanship, and the Oxford Movement, 1822–1869
The Church of Ireland has been regarded as almost devoid of a high church element and as unreservedly hostile to Tractarian claims. This article questions these assumptions. It considers the evidence for an influential, if minority, high church tradition within the Church of Ireland and shows how far its adherents during the 1830s and early 1840s looked to English Tractarians for support. The very raison d'être of the Irish church was questioned …
Our Brethren of the North’
Studies of the Oxford or Tractarian Movement in Britain have almost exclusively focused on the Church of England. The impact of the Catholic revival within Scotland has been accorded little attention. This neglect partly reflects the small size of the Episcopal Church in Scotland. Yet the subject deserves fuller consideration precisely because the minority Scottish Episcopal Church was, by the nineteenth century, more uniformly High Church in its…
The Church of England c.1689–c.1833
After decades of neglect there has been a resurgence of interest in the history of the Church of England in 'the long eighteenth century'. This volume of essays brings together the fruits of some of this research. Most of the essays have been written, not by traditional ecclesiastical historians, but by political, social and cultural historians, a fact which reflects the diversity of approaches to the study of the Church of England in the eightee…
Church or Protestant Sect? The Church of Ireland, High Churchmanship, and the Oxford Movement, 1822–1869
The Church of Ireland has been regarded as almost devoid of a high church element and as unreservedly hostile to Tractarian claims. This article questions these assumptions. It considers the evidence for an influential, if minority, high church tradition within the Church of Ireland and shows how far its adherents during the 1830s and early 1840s looked to English Tractarians for support. The very raison d'être of the Irish church was questioned …
Our Brethren of the North’
Studies of the Oxford or Tractarian Movement in Britain have almost exclusively focused on the Church of England. The impact of the Catholic revival within Scotland has been accorded little attention. This neglect partly reflects the small size of the Episcopal Church in Scotland. Yet the subject deserves fuller consideration precisely because the minority Scottish Episcopal Church was, by the nineteenth century, more uniformly High Church in its…
The Church of England c.1689–c.1833
After decades of neglect there has been a resurgence of interest in the history of the Church of England in 'the long eighteenth century'. This volume of essays brings together the fruits of some of this research. Most of the essays have been written, not by traditional ecclesiastical historians, but by political, social and cultural historians, a fact which reflects the diversity of approaches to the study of the Church of England in the eightee…
Our Brethren of the North’
Studies of the Oxford or Tractarian Movement in Britain have almost exclusively focused on the Church of England. The impact of the Catholic revival within Scotland has been accorded little attention. This neglect partly reflects the small size of the Episcopal Church in Scotland. Yet the subject deserves fuller consideration precisely because the minority Scottish Episcopal Church was, by the nineteenth century, more uniformly High Church in its…
Church or Protestant Sect? The Church of Ireland, High Churchmanship, and the Oxford Movement, 1822–1869
The Church of Ireland has been regarded as almost devoid of a high church element and as unreservedly hostile to Tractarian claims. This article questions these assumptions. It considers the evidence for an influential, if minority, high church tradition within the Church of Ireland and shows how far its adherents during the 1830s and early 1840s looked to English Tractarians for support. The very raison d'être of the Irish church was questioned …
The Oxford Movement as Religious Revival and Resurgence
It was ‘one of the most wonderful revivals in church history’, to be compared to the religious revival in the ‘days of Josiah towards the close of the Jewish monarchy’. This extravagant comment referred not to the Evangelical Revival of the eighteenth century, that paradigm of all religious revivals, but to something which the author, writing in 1912, characterized as ‘the Catholic Revival’. The idea of a revival or resurgence in either the indiv…
Reactions to Robert Southey's Life of Wesley (1820) Reconsidered
This article analyses the varying contemporary and later responses to Robert Southey's Life of Wesley (1820). Acclaimed for its literary qualities, its appearance in the shadow of the Evangelical Revival and the growing Methodist movement meant that its biographical perspective was long obscured by the nineteenth-century ‘Wesley legend’. Methodist reviewers such as Henry Moore and Richard Watson, repelled by his critique of ‘enthusiasm’ as well a…
Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain
Journal Article Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain: From the Restoration to the Twentieth Century. Essays in Honour of Keith Robbins, ed. Stewart J. Brown, Frances Knight and John Morgan-Guy Get access Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain: From the Restoration to the Twentieth Century. Essays in Honour of Keith Robbins, ed. Stewart J. Brown, Frances Knight and John Morgan-Guy (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013; pp. 281. £65). Peter Nockles Pet…
The British Critic
In this chapter the author examines the origins, Tractarian takeover, and ensuing commentary of the British Critic magazine, and the significant controversy which it was to generate. The chapter argues that attention to the Movement’s periodical journalism demonstrates the anxiety of John Henry Newman and others to secure a polemical platform beyond the Tracts for the Times, specifically for the discussion of political and social affairs. It addi…
Tradition and Development
Tradition as source of religious knowledge had been obscured since the Reformation by the Protestant claim that the Bible, and only the Bible, was the source of Christian knowledge. The use and abuse of Tradition in religious controversy had led Protestants to distrust it. The end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries brought a rediscovery of the concept and an enhanced value to Tradition in the social and religious spheres.…
Tractarian Theology in Verse and Sermon
In this chapter the author explores the role of poetry and sermons in propagating Tractarian theological ideas. The use of these two distinct genres was closely connected to the principle of reserve, a theory of knowledge holding that religious truth ought to be conveyed in accordance with the recipient’s ability to receive it. While poetry allowed a more detailed theological reflection, sermons offered a better opportunity for practical teaching…
The Prayer Book Controversy
In this chapter the author examines the role of Anglo-Catholicism in the revision process between the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline and the rejection of the 1928 Prayer Book in Parliament. The early twentieth-century project of Prayer Book revision in England in some ways indicated the growing recognition and acceptance of Anglo-Catholicism within the wider Church. However, as the process became increasingly controversial with del…
Did the Oxford Movement Die in 1851?
The conversion of a considerable number of supporters of the Oxford Movement between 1845 and 1851 raised a chorus of condemnations, but also led to the publication of the individual reasons which had led the converts to Rome. In such writings, the converts insisted that the path they had taken was the result of mature consideration and of inescapable dictates of conscience: to remain in the Church of England, they claimed, would have endangered …
The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement
The Handbook provides a comprehensive exploration of a great renewal movement in Christian history, which has profoundly influenced not only the world Anglican Communion, but other Church traditions as well. Commencing with the Movement’s roots within both High Church and evangelical Anglicanism, and its genesis within the University of Oxford and notably Oriel College, the Handbook considers the relatively short period when the Movement could pr…
The Catholic Church and the Campaign for Emancipation in Ireland and England, by Ambrose Macaulay
Ambrose Macaulay, author of The Holy See, British Policy and the Plan of Campaign in Ireland, 1885–93 (2002), is an authority on the complex political and diplomatic interplay of forces with which the Catholic Church in the British Isles had to deal in its struggle to win religious and political rights for Catholics. His mastery of the details of this recurring and ongoing struggle is evident in this new book. Macaulay shows how Catholics in Irel…
Saint John Henry Newman
It is clear that interest in the life and writings of Cardinal John Henry Newman transcends the various Christian denominations and indeed extends beyond that. The Symposium held at St Margaret’s Westminster on 18 October 2019 to celebrate Newman’s Canonisation was testimony to this fact. This in itself is significant surprising given Newman’s well known ability to become a focus of controversy and to be a sometimes polarising figure during his o…
Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685–1720, by William Gibson
Journal Article Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685–1720, by William Gibson Get access Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685–1720, by William Gibson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021; pp. 256. £75). Peter Nockles Peter Nockles Manchester, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, ceac198, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceac198 Publi…
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