{"product_id":"the-spirit-of-the-oxford-movement","title":"Spirit of the Oxford Movement","description":"This is the book we have been waiting for . . . a permanent enrichment of our understanding of the Oxford Movement\" proclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Downside Review\u003c\/i\u003e upon the publication of Christopher Dawson's masterwork in 1933, exactly 100 years after John Keble's sermon National Apostasy stirred a nation. Dawson himself regarded the book as one of his two greatest intellectual accomplishments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDawson and John Henry Newman were Oxonians and both were converts to Catholicism; both stood against progressive and liberal movements within society. In both ideologies, Dawson saw a pathway that had once led to the French Revolution. Newman, for Dawson, was a kindred spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit of the Oxford Movement\u003c\/i\u003e, Dawson goes beyond a mere retelling of the events of 1833–1845. He shows us the prime movers who sought a deeper understanding of the Anglican tradition: the quixotic Hurrell Froude, for instance, who \"had none of the English genius for compromise or the Anglican faculty of shutting the eyes to unpleasant facts.\" It was Froude who brought Newman and Keble together and who helped them understand each other. In many ways, Dawson sees these three as the true embodiment of the Tractarian ethos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDawson probes deeply, though, to provide a richer, clearer understanding of the intellectual underpinnings of the Oxford Movement, revealing its spiritual raison d'être. We meet a group of gifted like-minded thinkers, albeit with sharp disagreements, who mock outsiders and each other, who pepper their letters with Latin, and forever urge each other on. Newman came to believe, as did Dawson, that the only intellectually coherent bastion against secular culture was religion, and the \"on\" to which they were urged was the Catholic church. \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit of the Oxford Movement\u003c\/i\u003e provides insights into why Newman, and Dawson, came to this understanding.","brand":"The Catholic University of America Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55533046628696,"sku":"9780813236063","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780813236063_5764ec02-9295-4bed-93b0-65c073825895.jpg?v=1771378231","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-spirit-of-the-oxford-movement","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}