Brief Description
This brings together some of Owen Chadwick's most important and characteristic essays on the Tractarian Movement.
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More general topics are covered, in addition to studies of Newman, Liddon, Edward King and Henri Bremond, in this collection of new and revised essays on various aspects of the Oxford movement and the English Church in the Victorian era.
Review Quotes
1. "Owen Chadwick's essay, 'The Mind of the Oxford Movement, ' published in 1960 as the introduction to a collection of sources under that title, became a minor classic of Victorian religious history. There has been a demand for the essay to be reprinted independently, disencumbered of appendages no longer useful. The Spirit of the Oxford Movement meets that demand by combining it with the republication of a number of other essays, lectures, and reviews written between 1954 and 1987 and now not easily accessible. These essays have been somewhat revised and the volume given a title also somewhat revised but in fact more appropriate." Victorian Studies
2. 'There is an enchantment on this volume, as of the light that never was on sea or land. Professor Owen Chadwick disputes with his brother Henry the claim to be the most eminent ecclesiastical historian of his generation ... He is, moreover, supremely a scholar whose writings are popular in their immediate accessibility to the educated general reader through a lightness of tone and a breathtaking charm which turn everything to gold.' Sheridan Gilley, The Tablet
3. 'It is part of Owen Chadwick's genius ... that he is in the deepest sense of the term a devotional writer at the same time as he is a scholar of sensitivity, precision and learning. The mysteriousness and reality of the grace of God transforming human lives is what gives power to so many of these studies ... This collection of essays, such a joy and delight to read, has the capacity not only to inform the mind but to nurture the soul - and rightly so, for the Oxford Movement was not only about campaigns and dusty ideas dug up from the Christian past, but about the renewal of the Church in prayer and holiness and so in its true identity.' Geoffrey Rowell, The Church Times
4. ..."the collection is interesting to read. The author is a great scholar and a superb writer." John R. Griffin, The Catholic History Review
5. "The range of subjects in the tantalizing and suggestive collection provides material of interest to specialists and beginners alike." Dale A. Johnson, Religious Studies Review
6. ..."few would doubt the value of this collection....serves to demonstrate Chadwick's mastery of a range of disciplines. For this book opens new avenues into an understanding of the minds behind the Oxford Movement." William T. Gibson, Albion
7. .,."the collection is interesting to read. The author is a great scholar and a superb writer." John R. Griffin, The Catholic History Review
8. .,."few would doubt the value of this collection....serves to demonstrate Chadwick's mastery of a range of disciplines. For this book opens new avenues into an understanding of the minds behind the Oxford Movement." William T. Gibson, Albion
9. ."..the collection is interesting to read. The author is a great scholar and a superb writer." John R. Griffin, The Catholic History Review
10. ."..few would doubt the value of this collection....serves to demonstrate Chadwick's mastery of a range of disciplines. For this book opens new avenues into an understanding of the minds behind the Oxford Movement." William T. Gibson, Albion
11. ..".the collection is interesting to read. The author is a great scholar and a superb writer." John R. Griffin, The Catholic History Review
12. ..".few would doubt the value of this collection....serves to demonstrate Chadwick's mastery of a range of disciplines. For this book opens new avenues into an understanding of the minds behind the Oxford Movement." William T. Gibson, Albion
