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Keble

John. 1792--1866, English clergyman. His sermon on national apostasy (1833) is considered to have inspired the Oxford Movement
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community." King, "John Keble's The Christian Year.
A good clergyman, such as John Keble at Hursley, would teach in the school, and take pains to see that it was well run; a slack clergyman might not.
If you're a friend of John Keble, and you need to tame a powerful emotion, you might just try making it rhyme.
(5.) The traditional date for the beginning of the Movement is John Keble's 1833 Assize Sermon, in which he decries the recent parliamentary decision to suppress ten Irish Bishoprics as an "unquestionable symptom of enmity" to Christ and the Church.
I am going to those whom I do not know, and of whom I expect very little." Earlier, writing to his friend John Keble, Newman had described his approaching conversion by saying, "I am setting my face absolutely toward the wilderness."
John Keble was a founder of the influential Oxford Movement, an attempt to restore traditional Catholic teaching to the Church of England, which also emphasised social work, scholarship and educational advancement.
We have here a collection of sixteen studies of various aspects in the Church of England's history between the 'Act of Toleration' and John Keble's 'Assize Sermon' of 1833 which is, erroneously, regarded as the start of the great 'Catholic Revival'.
It is well known that Thomas Arnold and John Keble became friends during their Oxford years, only to part ways in the 1830s when they could not compose their disagreements over the future of the Church of England.
In 1839 John Keble commended Wordsworth for the award of an Honorary Degree at Oxford, as a poet who had celebrated 'that secret and harmonious intimacy which exists between honourable Poverty, and the severer Muses, sublime Philosophy, yea, even our most holy Religion'.(8) The commendation was uncontentious.
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