Oxford movement panel(s) - rough draft

• Intelligence of faith, intelligence of reality: Newman’s conviction in the nature of the Church from 2nd conversion had practical consequences.
• The C of E had become complacent and secularised,
  and was threatened from without: State interference in the church hides/confuses its true identity [T2, SORP]
• Newman decided to act, as did others. Assize sermon as start of movement
• Some people wanted an association with rules etc, but Newman wanted a movement
  With some friends (centred on Oxford) started writing and publishing the Tracts for the Times – hence Oxford or Tractarian movement
  
• Content of 1st few tracts...
  
• Impact: Tracts sold in large numbers, and N became famous [“police of Italy...”]
  Lots of students and young clergy attend his preaching at St Mary’s
• A broadening of Reason – OM, Romanticism, beauty
  
• What the OM proposed
  Antiquity as guide
  3 propositions
  New reformation (a pretty big claim!)
  The Via Media (describe how differs from Roman Catholicism); the C of E as a part of the “Church Catholic”. Apostolic succession.
  
• Tract 90 and the end of Newman’s leadership.
  The 39 Articles are a set of basically Protestant declarations that you needed to subscribe to, to become an Anglican cleric or go to Oxford or Cambridge.
  T90 as attempt to show that there was space for the Via Media in the C of E, by showing how the Articles could be accepted in a “catholic” sense.
  Ultimately anti-Roman prejudice in the C of E was too big an obstacle. Even though N maintained a distance from (and criticised) some RC doctrines, and had based T90 on historical Anglican teachings, T 90 was still condemned.