Tractarians

Rome, or by the glittering nonsense of that band of silly half-Popish sect called Tractarians, or Ritualists, the merciful Saviour gave the admirable parable of the poor servant, which He closed by what He has so often repeated, "So likewise shall my Heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses."

The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional Father Chiniquy

The Tractarians were a group of Oxford dons who, in the 1840s, wrote a series of tracts, aimed at proposing some changes to the theological system of the Anglican Church.

Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859

My expedient was the introduction of what may be called Tractarians _improper_; and I took them the more readily, because, though I knew that such there were, I knew none of them personally.

Apologia pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845

There was a lot of ill feeling when this renewal from the Tractarians swept through Anglicanism from Low Church advocates.

Diocese of Niagara: Repugnant ritualistic practices « Anglican Samizdat 2010

The Canon's contempt for a "Higher," more sacramental mode of worship leads him to reject the implications of what Skinner calls the "incarnationalist motif" 142 of the earlier Tractarians; instead of recognizing Christian fellowship by guiding his parishioners to repentance through sermons and other pastoral care, the Canon lets them all go to Hell in their own fashion.

The Little Professor: 2008

The Canon's contempt for a "Higher," more sacramental mode of worship leads him to reject the implications of what Skinner calls the "incarnationalist motif" 142 of the earlier Tractarians; instead of recognizing Christian fellowship by guiding his parishioners to repentance through sermons and other pastoral care, the Canon lets them all go to Hell in their own fashion.

Sequels, Victorian-style 2008

From the other direction, during this period, the “Oxford Tractarians, ” who sensed in reform the attempt of government to exert secular authority over the established church, began their attempt to move Anglicanism back to its High Church tradition, as a median between Catholicism and Protestantism.

Introduction - Critical Apparatus 2005

A historian may justly contend, if he thinks that the evidence warrants him, that Julian belongs to the type of virtuous reactionists, just as we may say it of Wesley or the chiefs of the Tractarians.

Voltaire 2007

For class today I read a sermon by Edward Bouverie Pusey, one of the Tractarians of the Oxford Movement.

trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2006

Such an acknowledgment is gratifying to those of us who are the residual heirs of the Tractarians and the Oxford Movement.

Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2005