The Church of England and Victorian Oxford
The History of the Oxford Churchmen's Union, 1860–1890
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2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-3878-4 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-3878-4 (ISBN)
Drawing together themes in Church of England history, the activity of second-generation leaders of the Oxford Movement, social change, secularization, and Victorian recreation, The Church of England and Victorian Oxford explains the difficulties faced by Churchmen who tried to use self-improvement and leisure to accomplish religious goals.
The Church of England and Victorian Oxford: The History of the Oxford Churchmen's Union, 1860–1890 explores questions of how the Victorian Church responded to challenges, what was the role of Tractarian clergy and laity, and did the Church’s effort to prove its continuing relevance and usefulness involve compromise? The author uses the Oxford Churchmen’s Union to investigate these matters in a new and integrated way. The OCU participated in Church defense and developed outreach programs. Men were to be brought into the Church through lectures and classes, concerts, sporting events, Christmas parties, and summer excursions, but for many OCU members, the social and recreational became more important than the religious side of the enterprise. Moreover, the Union was born in controversy, because its founders included Tractarians and others looked upon it with suspicion. Controversy also surrounded the OCU’s non-religious activities. There was a sense that leisure and amusement, if they prompted a departure from a strict focus on self-improvement, ought to be shunned, yet this was an age in which pleasure was to some degree divested of its traditional association with sin. This book is an academic study of the Union and Church history that uses the Union to elucidate the religious, social, and political conditions within which the Church and its supporters had to operate.
The Church of England and Victorian Oxford: The History of the Oxford Churchmen's Union, 1860–1890 explores questions of how the Victorian Church responded to challenges, what was the role of Tractarian clergy and laity, and did the Church’s effort to prove its continuing relevance and usefulness involve compromise? The author uses the Oxford Churchmen’s Union to investigate these matters in a new and integrated way. The OCU participated in Church defense and developed outreach programs. Men were to be brought into the Church through lectures and classes, concerts, sporting events, Christmas parties, and summer excursions, but for many OCU members, the social and recreational became more important than the religious side of the enterprise. Moreover, the Union was born in controversy, because its founders included Tractarians and others looked upon it with suspicion. Controversy also surrounded the OCU’s non-religious activities. There was a sense that leisure and amusement, if they prompted a departure from a strict focus on self-improvement, ought to be shunned, yet this was an age in which pleasure was to some degree divested of its traditional association with sin. This book is an academic study of the Union and Church history that uses the Union to elucidate the religious, social, and political conditions within which the Church and its supporters had to operate.
Michael J. Turner is Roy Carroll Distinguished Professor of British History at Appalachian State University, North Carolina.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Church of England in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter Two: Victorian Oxford
Chapter Three: The Establishment of the Oxford Churchmen’s Union
Chapter Four: The OCU in the Wider Church
Chapter Five: Doing “Higher Work”
Chapter Six: Leadership and Administration
Chapter Seven: Reform to Survive and Prosper
Chapter Eight: Social and Recreational Opportunities
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 608 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-3878-5 / 1666938785 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-3878-4 / 9781666938784 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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