Episode 19 - The Oxford Movement

About this episode

Jared Lovell and Dr. Charles Erlandson discuss the Oxford Movement and its implications for the Anglican Church.

Who were the Tractarians? What was the Oxford Movement? Was this a good, necessary, and salutary development for the Anglican Church? Or not? C. Jay is away today, but Jared is joined by Dr. Charles Erlandson, his former professor and mentor at Cranmer Theological House to discuss the Oxford Movement of the nineteenth century. For some new to Anglicanism (like Jared in his early days), the first impression of the Oxford Movement is that it was the source of all evils in modern Anglicanism: liberalism, pride flags, and everything else. And why? Because it was an Anglo-Catholic movement! But Jared began to read and learn, over time, that there’s more nuance than he had suspected. Was the Oxford Movement truly an Anglo-Catholic movement? Did it open the door to liberalism in the church? What can we learn from the Tractarians today? Join us on Canterbury Trails today as Jared and Dr. Erlandson discuss all this and much more, including the Oxford Movement as a catholic revival and reaction against the excesses of Evangelicalism; the Oxford Triumvirate of John Keble, John Henry Newman, and Edward Pusey; Keble’s poetic works and links to Romanticism; Newman’s infamous Tract 90 and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jared Lovell, C.Jay Engel

Guest: Dr. Charles Erlandson

Topics covered

• Oxford Movement
• Anglican Church
• Tractarians
• Anglo-Catholic movement
• Evangelicalism
• church history

Keywords

• Oxford Movement
• Anglicanism
• Tractarians
• Evangelicalism
• John Keble
• John Henry Newman
• Edward Pusey
• church history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cranmer Theological House, Good Shepherd Reformed Episcopal Church

Books & works: Tract 90

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