The Spirit of the Oxford Movement has been acclaimed by leading Church historians as by far the most useful introduction to the study of the Anglo-Catholic movement in the 1830s.
The Spirit of the Oxford Movement has been acclaimed by leading Church historians as by far the most useful introduction to the study of the Anglo-Catholic movement in the 1830s.
Of particular interest is the way in which Dawson draws attention to the previously underplayed influence of Hurrell Froude on Newman and Keble. Froude emerges as one of the most attractive and far-sighted figures of the time.
Dawson, surely one of the greatest Catholic historians of the modern age, also demonstrates how the principal concerns of the Oxford Movement were doctrinal, not specifically liturgical. He makes the point that, were Keble alive in the twentieth century, he would find modern Anglicanism completely incompatible with a true understanding of Christianity.
Lucid and fascinating, Dawson's account of one of the most important movements in English thought has remained a classic ever since its first publication in 1933.
This edition also includes an essay on Newman's Place in History contributed by Dawson to a collection to celebrate the centenary of Newman's reception into the Church. It also features an introduction by Dr. Peter Nockles of Manchester University and a biographical sketch of the author by his daughter, Christina Scott.
The Spirit of the Oxford Movement, by Christopher Dawson.
153 pages, clothbound with dustjacket. ISBN 1 901157 18 0.
£14.95 ; $26.95 in the U.S.A.
Published by The Saint Austin Press.
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