Tractarians and the 'Condition of England'
The Social and Political Thought of the Oxford Movement
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 November 2004
- ISBN 9780199273232
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 223x146x24 mm
- Weight 545 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In Tractarians and the 'Condition of England' Simon Skinner challenges the construction of tractarianism as an episode in church history, and the convention that tractarians had little interest in social questions. Making use of neglected periodical and fictional material, Skinner demonstrates that tractarians in fact directed a vigorous commentary against the iniquities of commercialism, of political economy and the new poor law, and of the condition of the labouring poor.
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Tractarians and the 'Condition of England' challenges the conventional view of tractarianism as an episode in church history, and the assumption that tractarians had little interest in the 'social condition of England'. It argues that, by a natural application of their theory of the church's primacy over the state, first-generation tractarians in fact directed a vigorous commentary against the iniquities of commercialism, of political economy and the new poor law, and of the condition of the labouring poor. This conclusion is derived in part from conventional sources for tractarian thought, such as manuscript, homiletic, and pamphlet material. However, the book also makes systematic use of two neglected though rich polemical sources: the British Critic, a quarterly periodical for whose editorial control J. H. Newman successfully manoeuvred in the late 1830s, and the canon of social novels issued by some of tractarianism's prolific yet forgotten commentators, in particular William Gresley and F. E. Paget. The author, Simon Skinner, complements recent scholarship which has refined understanding of the political and intellectual culture of nineteenth-century Britain by recovering religious and theological dimensions.
A pleasure to read...beautifully produced...indispensable to anyone interested in nineteenth-century British and religious history.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Tractarian Commentary and Posterity
The Background
Sources of Tractarian Criticism
The Political Model
High Politics: Church and State
Low Politics: the Parish Unit
The Social Criticism
The Commercial Spirit: 'the Worship of Mammon'
Political Economy: 'the Philosophy of Antichrist'
The Church and the Poor: 'the Poor Man's Court of Justice'
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
