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Anglo-Catholic movement |
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Anglo-Catholic movement: see Oxford movement Oxford movement, religious movement begun in 1833 by Anglican clergymen at Oxford Univ. to renew the Church of England (see England, Church of ) by reviving certain Roman Catholic doctrines and rituals. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| A distinguished architect and ecclesiological scholar, John Ninian
Comper (1864-1960) was a major influence on the liturgical revival when
the Anglican Church was still imbued with a vital Anglo-Catholicism, now
largely dissipated. But there is no lack of complication in the portrait of
Wordsworth moving increasingly toward Anglo-Catholicism, revising his
poems under the influence of an Oxford Movement disciple, to project an
overtly Christian message--even as he campaigned against the Catholic
emancipation act. Where Gladstone differed with Newman was in seeing self-deception
not in Anglo-Catholicism, which Newman came to see as a "mere
theory and illusion, a paper theology that facts contradict," but
in Roman Catholicism, about which Gladstone gave out that "no one
can become her convert without renouncing his moral and mental
freedom. |
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