Tractarianism
/trakˈtɛːrɪənɪz(ə)m
/noun [mass noun]
Another name for Oxford Movement.Other sources of identity could be found in the common experience of change in the aesthetics of worship and church architecture (ironically originating in Tractarianism)....
- It deals with some of the social and religious problems of the day (the miserable conditions of the rustic labourer, the Game Laws, and Tractarianism).
- The original edition of the work was published before the start of the Oxford Movement; thus, it is anachronistic in a sense to read these portions as apologetic for Tractarianism.
Derivatives
Tractarian
- Maria resisted convention by joining an Anglican sisterhood, and Christina, who never married, became the finest poet of the Tractarian movement.
- The final chapter - on the missionary outreach of Anglicans, which was strongly influenced by the Tractarians - includes information with which I was not familiar.
- Studies over the past ten years of the older High Churchmen, the Tractarians, and the Evangelicals have shown the complexity of the crosscurrents within Anglicanism.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Tracts for the Times, the title of a series of pamphlets started by J. H. Newman and published in Oxford 1833–41, which set out the doctrines on which the movement was based.