The origins of the Oxford movement : a critical reconsideration with special reference to English social and intellectual conditions.

A study of the Oxford Movement intended to determine the extent to which its origins were related to the social and intellectual conditions ofEngland during the period of transition following the Napoleonic wars, involving a comparison of the motive forces behind the Oxford andBroad Church Movements.An attempt is made to establish that the experiences of the Tractarians and the members of the Broad Church School underwent essentially the samephases, - a common sense of despondency in face of the confused conditions of the time, a common search for an escape in literary romanticism orin a romantic attitude towards nature, a common effort to find release in some social or political service and finally a common turning to areligious ideal in which self-abasement is the distinguishing feature. [...