Tractarianism

He himself knew that, in reality, the confused beliefs which she held, apparently imbibed in childhood, were, if anything, Tractarian as to phraseology, and Pantheistic as to essence.

This movement of religious change was met in its early stages by the very interesting reactionary 'Oxford' or 'Tractarian' Movement, which asserted the supreme authority of the Church and its traditional doctrines.

Gothic apparatus was to the Tractarians. (42) It was an aural,

In this she was heavily influenced by the Tractarians, with their doctrine of reserve, according to which divine truth was encoded in the visible world to be deciphered only by the faithful.

liturgical calendar (which the Tractarians promoted and revived within

The first point to note is that Newman and his fellow Tractarians received from the romantic movement the conception of art as the expression of personal sentiment.

These preliminaries furnish the fodder for the third part's discussion of "the conflicts which raged in the University of Oxford in the 1830s and 1840s, with Oriel College as the epicenter." Arrayed on one side were "liberal Noetics," who "aspired to invigorate English Christianity through toleration, pluralism and reason." On the opposite side were conservative "Tractarians" who "fought to return the Church of England to the traditions, the conceptions of faith, the practices of discipline and the lines of authority of its apostolic foundation." Oriel College was then the scene of both commonality and controversy: "Both sides believed that modern men were astray in a spiritually barren wilderness.

Then, in the early 1830s, the Tractarians' reaction to the Church's slide away from orthodoxy led them to reserve definitive public statements on the atonement because an understanding of the mysteries of faith required, they argued, incorporation into the Church, participation in its liturgy and rituals, and appreciation for the nuanced balance of Scripture and church doctrine.

When Rossetti's enthusiasm for the Tractarians is considered alongside some of her more reactionary political stances--most notoriously, her decision to appear as a signatory to "An Appeal Against Female Suffrage" in 1889 (Hassett, p.

She covers riot, revolution, and reform in the colleges 1714-89; the new examination statute of 1800; the emergence of a junior reform program 1870-23; noetics, tractarians, and the peak of junior influence, 1824-36; and the tracterian threat and the royal commission of 1850.