Reserve and Physical Imagery in the Tractarian Poetry of Isaac Williams (1802–65)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12033448 |
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| Authors | John Boneham (Westminster Cathedral, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Pages | 246-258 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Church History (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0424-2084 • E-ISSN: 2059-0644 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0424208400001352 |
| OpenAlex | W2320566623 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The Oxford, or Tractarian, Movement began as a conservative reaction to the reforming measures of the 1820s and 1830s and in particular to the Whig government’s passing of the Irish Church Temporalities Bill in 1832. For the Tractarians, the cumulative effect of such legislation was that the authority of the Church was being seriously compromised by interference from the secular government, which could now include those who were not necessarily Anglicans or even Christians. While it was these overtly political concerns that moved John Keble to preach his ‘Assize Sermon’ which has. traditionally been seen as marking the beginning of the movement in July 1833, the Oxford Movement was to develop into a spiritual revival whose concerns went far beyond politics. In rejecting the established relationship between Church and state the Tractarians came to emphasize the Church’s innate spiritual autonomy and appealed increasingly to the authority of tradition as reflected in the writings of the church fathers of the third and fourth centuries. In doing so their emphasis on certain beliefs and practices of the primitive Church, such as baptismal regeneration, the real presence and the apostolic succession, was seen as betraying sympathy for Roman Catholicism and disloyalty towards the Church of England
Art · Church History · Irish · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Royalist · Sermon · Sympathy · Temporalities · Theology · Historical Architecture and Urbanism · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Scottish History and National Identity · Religious Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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