Hurrell Froude and the Beginnings of the Movement

From the days of its foundation in the sixteenth century it has always been possible to trace in the Established Church, side by side with the Puritan and Erastian traditions, a tradition of teaching which approximates very closely to the doctrines of Catholicism; a tradition which lays strong emphasis on the supernatural character of the visible Body of Christ, on the importance of the sacraments in the scheme of salvation and in consequence on the Catholic ideal of holiness. At times in the history of the Church of England this Catholic tradition has flourished widely, but never to the complete exclusion of other traditions, and at times these have appeared to squeeze the Catholic tradition almost out of existence. The beginning of the nineteenth century was such a time; with the Revolution of 1688 and the consequent schism of the Non-jurors the old Catholic High Churchmanship of the Caroline divines, with its solid Patristic learning, its sober but definite exposition of the corporate existence and supernatural basis of the Church of Christ and its insistence on sacramentalism, began to fade into obscurity. Political circumstances had much to do with the gradual disappearance of a school of thought which had almost dominated the Stuart period. The failure of the '45 made Jacobitism for ever a lost cause, and from that date Jacobite Toryism began to make terms with the established order and Jacobite churchmen drank the health of the Hanover kings

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