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Short History of the Oxford Movement
by S.L. Ollard
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Faith Press Ltd (1963-12)
ISBN: 0716404923
EAN: 9780716404927
Binding/Media: Paperback - 194 pages
Edition: New edition
SKU: 08030359
Condition: Very Good
DJ Condition: As issued no jacket
Comments: Trade Paperback. Very Good condition with no markings. No highlights, underlines or notes in text. Reading creases in spine and moderate wear with slight scuffing to cover. Tight binding and clean crisp text. Very Nice copy.
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Product Description
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII SOME FURTHER RESULTS IITERATURE, architecture, painting, em> broidery, and music belong to the external world; and although the Oxford Movement has left abiding results in each of those arts, it has been concerned far more deeply with the things of the mind and of the soul. Even in the most cursory review of its effects three can hardly escape the most careless observer--its effect on education, its revival of the Religious Communities for men and for women, and its steady and heroic efforts made in the cause of Reunion. The first men of the Oxford Movement were scholars and teachers; it was natural, therefore, that education should be quickened and enriched by their work. Two great English head masters, Dr. Christopher Wordsworth at Harrow, and Dr. Moberly at Winchester, had strong sympathies with the Tractarians, but the tide of the Movement ran too strong to be confined within the limits of existing public schools, and it produced founders of its own. The earliest of these was William Sewell (1804-74), Fellow and Tutor of Exeter College, who, although a vigorous critic of the Movement, was broadly in sympathy with it, and designed his College of S. Peter at Radley (founded in 1847) to be a public school definitely on the lines of the teaching of the Prayer Book; the fast as well as the festival days were observed there, and great care was taken with the chapel services. Five years before, in 1843, with the aid of the Irish Primate, Lord J. G. Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh, Sewell had founded S. Columba's College, at Rathfarnham, near Dublin, but his hopeless incapacity for business had led the College deep into debt. The College continued to be linked to the Movement under the Wardenship of George Williams, who held the post from 18...
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