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Oxford movement   /ˈɑksfərd mˈuvmənt/   Listen
Oxford movement

noun
1.
19th-century movement in the Church of England opposing liberal tendencies.






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... remarkable circumstance that the Oxford movement in the church of England was at first an anticatholic movement. The Catholic Emancipation Bill and the liberality of the parliament after the Reform Bill created an alarm, which led to the study of the non-juring divines and Anglo-catholics who had asserted the rights of the church, and to the ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar

... period was approaching, did I not admit that every period can always be described as critical. In fact, however, thoughtful people, perceiving on the one hand that the foundations of their creed were shaking, and yet holding it to be essential to their happiness, began to take a new position. The 'Oxford movement,' started soon afterwards, implied a conviction that the old Protestant position was as untenable as the radical asserted. Its adherents attempted to find a living and visible body whose supernatural authority might maintain ...
— The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) - James Mill • Leslie Stephen



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