OXFORD MOVEMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1933, Page 5

OXFORD MOVEMENT

HOW IT HAS GROWN

An historical survey of the Oxford Movement, the centenary of which is being -celebrated this year, was given by the Rev. G. M. McKenzie in a lecture at St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral last evening. Mr. McKenzie said that during the past 140 years there had been three great schools of thought in the Church—the Evangelicals, the Oxford Movement, and the Broad Church—and each had added something to her spiritual ■ life. The Oxford Movement, said the lecturer, was essentially a revival. It was a vigorous reassertion of an element in the life of the Church of England which in some form or other had always been there, and m that sense it was not a new thing but a revival. '

Mr. McKenzie traced the development of the movement, which, he said, was commonly heW to have begun with John Kebles sermon on "National Apostasy." preached at Oxford on July 14. 1533. "in the same year began the publication of the 'Tracts for the Times." In 1834 Pusey gave the movement the weight of his learning. The "Tracts" evoked a storm of opposition, and in the chaos that followed many, of the original leaders seceded to the Church of Some.

But the movement, said Mr. McKenzie, continued with .increased vigour, and by the beginning of the twentieth centuryhad transformed ' the face of the whole Anglican communion.