Edward Bouverie Pusey and the Oxford Movement

Edited by Rowan Strong, Carol Engelhardt Herringer

Publication date:

15 October 2012

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780857285652

The Oxford Movement, initiating what is commonly called the Catholic Revival of the Church of England and of global Anglicanism more generally, has been a perennial subject of study by historians since its beginning in the 1830s. But the leader of the movement whose name was most associated with it during the nineteenth century, Edward Bouverie Pusey, has long been neglected by historical studies of the Anglican Catholic Revival. This collection of essays seeks to redress the negative and marginalizing historiography of Pusey, and to increase current understanding of both Pusey and his culture. The essays take Pusey’s contributions to the Oxford Movement and its theological thinking seriously; most significantly, they endeavour to understand Pusey on his own terms, rather than by comparison with Newman or Keble. The volume reveals Pusey as a serious theologian who had a significant impact on the Victorian period, both within the Oxford Movement and in wider areas of church politics and theology. This reassessment is important not merely to rehabilitate Pusey’s reputation, but also to help our current understanding of the Oxford Movement, Anglicanism and British Christianity in the nineteenth century.

Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Chapter One: Introduction – Rowan Strong and Carol Engelhardt Herringer; Chapter Two: The History of the History of Pusey – Ian McCormack; Chapter Three: Editing Liddon: From Biography to Hagiography? – K. E. Macnab; Chapter Four: From Modern-Orthodox Protestantism to Anglo-Catholicism: An Enquiry into the Probable Causes of the Revolution of Pusey’s Theology – Albrecht Geck; Chapter Five: Defining the Church: Pusey’s Ecclesiology and its Eighteenth-Century Antecedents – R. Barry Levis; Chapter Six: Pusey’s Eucharistic Doctrine – Carol Engelhardt Herringer; Chapter Seven: Pusey, Alexander Forbes and the First Vatican Council – Mark Chapman; Chapter Eight: Pusey and the Scottish Episcopal Church: Tractarian Diversity and Divergence – Rowan Strong; Bibliography

‘In a wide-ranging set of essays that are both scholarly and accessible, the authors make a persuasive case for a reassessment of Pusey’s life and significance. He emerges from these pages a greater theologian and a more sympathetic human being than he is usually considered to be. This is an exciting contribution to our understanding of the High Church Revival in Anglicanism, and a provocative and important study of one of its greatest figures.’ —Reverend Dr Jeremy Morris, Dean, King’s College, University of Cambridge