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The Tracts for the Times were a series of 90 theological publications, varying in length from a few pages to book-length, produced by members of the English Oxford Movement, an Anglo-Catholic revival group, from 1833 to 1841. There were about a dozen authors, including Oxford Movement leaders John Keble, John Henry Newman and Edward Bouverie Pusey, with Newman taking the initiative in the series, and making the largest contribution. With the wide distribution associated with the tract form, and a price in pennies, the Tracts succeeded in drawing attention to the views of the Oxford Movement on points of doctrine, but also to its overall approach, to the extent that Tractarian became a synonym for supporter of the movement.

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Background

On 14 July 1833, Keble preached at St Mary's an assize sermon on "National Apostasy", which Newman afterwards regarded as the inauguration of the Oxford Movement. In the words of Richard William Church, it was "Keble who inspired, Froude who gave the impetus, and Newman who took up the work"; but the first organisation of it was due to Hugh James Rose, editor of the British Magazine, who has been styled "the Cambridge originator of the Oxford Movement". Rose met Oxford Movement figures on a visit to Oxford looking for magazine contributors, and it was in his rectory house at Hadleigh, Suffolk, that a meeting of High Church clergy was held over 25–26 July (Newman was not present, but Hurrell Froude, Arthur Philip Perceval, and William Palmer had gone to visit Rose), [1] at which it was resolved to fight for "the apostolical succession and the integrity of the Prayer Book."

Publication

Many of the tracts were labelled, indicating their intended audience: Ad Clerum (to the clergy), Ad Populum (to the people), or Ad Scholas (to scholars). The first 20 tracts appeared in 1833, with 30 more in 1834. After that the pace slowed, but the later contributions were more substantive on doctrinal matters. Initially these publications were anonymous, pseudonymous, or reprints from theologians of previous centuries. The authorship details of the tracts were recovered by later scholars of the Oxford Movement, with some tentative accounts of drafting. Through Francis Rivington, the tracts were published by the Rivington house in London, and were simultaneously published by J H Parker in Oxford. [2]

Opposition

The Tracts also provoked a secondary literature from opponents. Significant replies came from evangelicals, including that of William Goode in Tract XC Historically Refuted (1845) and Isaac Taylor. [3] The term "Tractarian" applied to followers of Keble, Pusey and Newman (the Oxford Movement) was used by 1839, in sermons by Christopher Benson. [4]

The series was brought to an end by the intervention of Richard Bagot, Bishop of Oxford, not unsympathetic to the Tractarians, [5] after the appearance of Newman's Tract 90, which suggested a heterodox reading of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, and caused controversy in the University.

Literature

William Palmer in 1843 published A Narrative of Events Connected with the Publication of the Tracts for the Times, dedicated to Bagot. [6] In the Preface he is concerned with arguing against the point of view that the Tracts were an attempt to introduce Roman Catholic beliefs; to place the Tracts in the context set up by the 1833 formation of the Association of Friends of the Church (set up by Hugh James Rose, Hurrell Froude and Palmer himself) that was the initial step in the Oxford Movement; and to distance his views from the editorial line of the British Critic . This work then provoked a major statement of his position by William George Ward. [7]

Table of the Tracts

NumberDateTitleAuthorComment
19 September 1833 [8] Thoughts on the Ministerial Commission, respectfully addressed to the clergy [9] John Henry Newman
29 September 1833 The Catholic Church Newman
39 September 1833 Thoughts respectfully addressed to the Clergy on alterations in the Liturgy. The Burial Service. The Principle of Unity. [10] Newman
421 September 1833 Adherence to the Apostolical Succession the safest course. On Alterations in the Prayer-book. [11] John Keble
518 October 1833 A short address to his Brethren on the Nature and Constitution of the Church of Christ, and of the Branch of it established in England. By a Layman. John William Bowden
629 October 1833 The Present Obligation of Primitive Practice. A Sin of the Church. [12] NewmanAd Populum
729 October 1833 The Episcopal Church Apostolical [13] Newman
831 October 1833 The Gospel a Law of Liberty [14] Attributed to Newman. Possibly Hurrell Froude (ODNB)
931 October 1833 On Shortening the Church Service Hurrell Froude
104 November 1833 Heads of a Week-day lecture, delivered to a country congregation in -------shire.Newman
1111 November 1833 The Visible Church Newman
124 December 1833 Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. Richard Nelson. No. 1 Thomas Keble (as Richard Nelson)"Richard Nelson" was a pseudonym.
135 December 1833 Sunday Lessons. The Principle of Selection. John Keble
1412 December 1833 The Ember Days.Alfred MenziesAd Populum. Menzies was a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. [15] Graduating B.A. in 1832, he was ordained deacon and appointed Curate of Godalming in 1834, and ordained as priest in 1835. [16] [17] He died in Torquay, aged 26, on 24 February 1836. [18]
1513 December 1833 On the Apostolical Succession in the English Church . William Palmer, completed by Newman
1617 December 1833 Advent . Benjamin Harrison
1720 December 1833 The Ministerial Commission, a Trust from Christ for the Benefit of His People. Benjamin Harrison
1821 December 1833 Thoughts on the Benefits of the System of Fasting Enjoined by Our Church. Edward Pusey Pusey published this tract under his initials. [19]
1923 December 1833 On arguing concerning the Apostolical Succession. On Reluctance to confess the Apostolical Succession. Newman
2024 December 1833 The Visible Church . Letter III.NewmanAd Scholas.
211 January 1834 Mortification of the Flesh a Scripture duty .NewmanAd Populum. Newman gave initials on this tract, which supported Pusey's Tract 18. [19]
226 January 1834 The Athanasian Creed . Richard Nelson. No. II. Thomas Keble (as Richard Nelson)
236 January 1834 The Faith and Obedience of Churchmen, the Strength of the Church. Arthur Philip Perceval
2425 January 1834 The Scripture View of the Apostolical Commission. Benjamin Harrison
2525 January 1834 The great Necessity and Advantage of Public Prayer .Reprint, extracted from William Beveridge's sermon.Ad Populum.
262 February 1834 The Necessity and Advantage of Frequent Communion .Reprint, extracted from William Beveridge's sermon.
2724 February 1834 The History of Popish Transubstantiation .Reprint, by John Cosin.
2825 March 1834 The same, concluded. ?
2925 March 1834 Christian Liberty; Or, Why Should We Belong to the Church of England? By a Layman. John William Bowden
3025 March 1834 The same continued. John William Bowden
3125 April 1834 The Reformed Church.NewmanAd Clerum.
3225 April 1834 On the Standing Ordinances of Religion . Charles Page Eden (ODNB)
331 May 1834 Primitive Episcopacy .NewmanAd Scholas.
348 May 1834 Rites and Customs of the Church .NewmanAd Scholas.
358 May 1834 The People's Interest in Their Minister's Commission . Arthur Philip Perceval
3611 June 1834 Account of Religious Sects at Present Existing in England . Arthur Philip Perceval
3724 June 1834 Bishop Wilson's Form of Excommunication.Reprint, by Thomas Wilson Ad Populum.
3825 June 1834 Via Media. No. I. NewmanAd Scholas. Later as a Catholic, in his 1845 Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (the Retractation of Anti-Catholic Statements), Newman recalled his language in this tract: In 1834 I also used, of certain doctrines of the Church of Rome, the epithets 'unscriptural,' 'profane,' 'impious,' 'bold,' 'unwarranted,' 'blasphemous,' 'gross,' 'monstrous,' 'cruel,' 'administering deceitful comfort,' and 'unauthorised,' in Tract 38. I do not mean to say that I had not a definite meaning in every one of those epithets, or that I did not weigh them before I used them. [20]
3925 June 1834 Bishop Wilson's Form of Receiving Penitents .Reprint, by Thomas Wilson Ad Populum.
4025 June 1834 Baptism . Richard Nelson III. John Keble (as Richard Nelson)
4124 August 1834 Via Media. No. II. NewmanAd Scholas.
4224 August 1834 Bishop Wilson's Meditations on his Sacred Office. No. I, Sunday. Reprint, by Thomas Wilson Ad Populum.
4321 September 1834 Length of the Public Service . Richard Nelson. No. IV. Thomas Keble (as Richard Nelson)Ad Populum.
4428 September 1834 Bishop Wilson's Meditations on his Sacred Office. No. II, Monday. Reprint, by Thomas Wilson Ad Populum.
4518 October 1834 The Grounds of our Faith .NewmanAd Clerum.
4628 October 1834 Bishop Wilson's Meditations on his Sacred Office. No. III, Tuesday. Reprint, by Thomas Wilson Ad Populum.
471 November 1834 The Visible Church. Letter IV. NewmanAd Clerum.
4830 November 1834 Bishop Wilson's Meditations on his Sacred Office. No. IV, Wednesday. Reprint, by Thomas Wilson Ad Populum.
4925 December 1834 The Kingdom of Heaven . Benjamin Harrison
5026 December 1834 Bishop Wilson's Meditations on his Sacred Office. No. IV, Wednesday (continued). Reprint, by Thomas Wilson Ad Populum.
516 January 1835 On Dissent without Reason in Conscience .Robert F. Wilson
52[Undated] Sermons for Saints' Days and Holidays. No. 1, St. Matthias. John Keble
5324 February 1835 Bishop Wilson's Meditations on his Sacred Office. No. V, Thursday. Reprint, by Thomas Wilson Ad Populum
542 February 1835 Sermons for Saints' Days and Holidays. No. 2, The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. John Keble
5525 March 1835 Bishop Wilson's Meditations on his Sacred Office. No. V, Thursday (continued) Reprint, by Thomas Wilson Ad Populum
5625 March 1835 Holy Days observed in the English Church . John William Bowden Ad Populum
5725 March 1835 Sermons on Saints' Days. No. 3, St Mark's Day. John Keble Ad Populum
5819 April 1835 On the Church as viewed by Faith and by the World . John William Bowden Ad Populum
5925 April 1835 The position of the Church of Christ in England, relatively to the State and the Nation . Hurrell Froude Ad Clerum
6025 March 1835 Sermons for Saints' Days and Holidays. No. 4. St. Philip and St. James. John Keble Ad Populum
611 May 1835 The Catholic Church a Witness against Illiberality .Antony Buller
621 May 1835 Bishop Wilson's Meditations on his Sacred Office. No. V, Thursday (continued) Reprint, by Thomas Wilson Ad Populum
631 May 1835 The Antiquity of the existing Liturgies . Hurrell Froude Ad Clerum
6411 June 1835 Bishop Bull on the Ancient Liturgies .Reprint, by George Bull Ad Populum
6528 June 1835 Bishop Wilson's Meditations on his Sacred Office. No. VI, Friday (abridged). Reprint, by Thomas Wilson Ad Populum. Later editions printed the work in full.
6613 April 1835 On the Benefits of the System of Fasting Prescribed by Our Church . Supplement to Tract XVIII Edward Pusey
6724 August 1835 Scriptural Views of Holy Baptism . Edward Pusey Ad Clerum. "In these [67, 68, 69] Pusey maintained that regeneration is connected with baptism both in scripture and in the writings of the early church. A second edition of the first of the three tracts appeared in 1839; in it the argument was entirely confined to scripture, but was expanded from forty-nine to four hundred pages." [21]
6829 September 1835 Scriptural views of Holy Baptism (continued). Edward Pusey Ad Clerum
6918 October 1835 Scriptural Views of Holy Baptism (concluded). Edward Pusey Ad Clerum
7028 October 1835 Bishop Wilson's Meditations on his Sacred Office. No. VII, Saturday (abridged). Reprint, by Thomas Wilson Ad Populum
711 January 1836On the Controversy with the Romanists (No. I, Against Romanism).NewmanAd Clerum
726 January 1836Archbishop Ussher on Prayers for the Dead (No. II, Against Romanism).Reprint, by James Ussher
732 February 1836On the Introduction of Rationalistic Principles into Religion.NewmanAd Scholas. Against Thomas Erskine of Linlathen and Jacob Abbott. [22]
7425 April 1836Catena Patrum No. I. Testimony of Writers in the later English Church to the Doctrine of the Apostolical Succession [23] NewmanAd Populum. "It contains extracts from the writings of forty-three English theologians, the first being Bilson who died in 1616, and the last Mant who died in 1848. In the entire list there are but four Archbishops of Canterbury (Bancroft, Laud, Wake and Potter). There are very many non-jurors, some very distinguished typical Anglicans and others of no great note or weight." [24] They were: Thomas Bilson; Richard Hooker; Richard Bancroft; Lancelot Andrewes; Joseph Hall; William Laud; John Bramhall; Joseph Mede; Francis Mason; Robert Sanderson; Henry Hammond; Jeremy Taylor; Peter Heylin; Richard Allestree; John Pearson; John Fell; George Bull; Edward Stillingfleet; Thomas Ken; William Beveridge; John Sharp; John Scott; William Wake; John Potter; Robert Nelson; John Kettlewell; George Hickes; William Law; John Johnson; Henry Dodwell; Jeremy Collier; Charles Leslie; Thomas Wilson; Joseph Bingham; Philip Skelton; Samuel Johnson; George Horne; William Jones; Samuel Horsley; Reginald Heber; John Jebb; William Van Mildert; Richard Mant.
7524 June 1836On the Roman Breviary as embodying the substance of the Devotional Services of the Church Catholic.NewmanAd Clerum. Draft by Hurrell Froude. This Tract influenced Robert Williams and Samuel Francis Wood, both laymen, to attempt a translation of the Roman Breviary . Newman put an end to this project. [25]
7629 September 1836; [26] 1840Catena Patrum No. II. Testimony of Writers in the later English Church to the Doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration [27] NewmanAd Populum. John Jewell; Hooker; Andrewes; John Donne; Richard Field; Thomas Jackson; Laud; John Bramhall; Hammond; Taylor; Heylin; Allestrie; Isaac Barrow; Herbert Thorndike; Pearson; Bull; Thomas Comber; Ken; Simon Patrick; Beveridge; Sharp; Scott; Robert Jenkin; Thomas Sherlock; William Wall; Potter; Nelson; Daniel Waterland; Kettlewell; Hickes; Johnson; Leslie; Wilson; Bingham; Skelton; Horne; Jones; Reginald Heber; Jebb; Van Mildert; Mant.
771 November 1836An Earnest Remonstrance to the Author of 'The Pope's Letter'. Edward Pusey, reprinted.Directed to Charles Dickinson after an anonymous attack on the Tractarian view of prayers for the dead. [28] [29]
782 February 1837Catena Patrum. No. III. Testimony of Writers in the later English Church to the duty of maintaining, Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus traditum est. Henry Edward Manning and Charles Marriott Ad Populum. The authors cited are: Jewell; Convocation of 1571; The Queen's Council of 1582; Bilson; Hooker; Convocation of 1603; John Overall; Morton; Field; White; Hall; Laud; Richard Montagu; Jackson; Mede; James Ussher; Bramhall; Sanderson; John Cosin; Hammond; Thorndike; Taylor; Heylin; Commissioners of 1662; Pearson; Barrow; Bull; Edward Stillingfleet; Ken; Beveridge; Patrick; Sharp; Potter; John Ernest Grabe; Thomas Brett; Hickes; Jeremy Collier; Leslie; Waterland; Bingham; Jebb; Van Mildert.
7925 March 1837On Purgatory (Against Romanism, No. III).NewmanAd Clerum.
80[Undated]On Reserve in communicating Religious Knowledge, Parts I-III. Isaac Williams This tract was criticised by James Henry Monk. [30] Williams replied, taking the criticism to be hasty. [31]
811 November 1837Catena Patrum. No. IV. Testimony of Writers in the later English Church to the doctrine of the Eucharistic Sacrifice. with an historical account of the changes in the Liturgy as to the expression of that doctrine. Edward Pusey The catena was mostly the work of Benjamin Harrison. [28] Authors cited: Jewell; Bilson; Hooker; Overall; Field; John Buckeridge; Thomas Morton; Andrewes; Mason; Francis White; Laud; Hall; Montagu; William Forbes; Mede; Brian Duppa; Compilers of the Scotch Prayer Book; William Nicholson; Bramhall; Cosin; Heylyn; Anthony Sparrow; Henry Ferne; Hammond; Thomas Barlow; Thorndike; Taylor; Daniel Brevint; William Sancroft; Matthew Scrivener; John Fell; Patrick; Gabriel Towerson; Bull; Stillingfleet; Smith; Beveridge; George Hooper; Henry Dodwell; Hickes; Comber; Collier; Nelson; Wake; Johnson; Wilson; Sherlock; Grabe; Leslie; Brett; Thomas Bennet; John Potter; John Hughes; [32] [33] Roger Laurence; William Law; Charles Wheatly; Glocester Ridley; Compilers of the American Prayer Book; William Jones of Nayland; Horsley; Charles Daubeny; Alexander Jolly; Henry Phillpotts. "[Pusey's] ‘Tracts’ on the holy eucharist appeared in 1836. Their primary object was to recall the attention of churchmen to the almost forgotten sacrificial aspect of the eucharist, as it was held by the early church and constantly asserted in the writings of the best Anglican divines. At the same time he was careful to guard his statements against any popular confusion with the distinctive doctrine of the Roman church." [21]
821 November 1837Preface, Title-Page, and Contents to Volume IV. The Preface includes Letter to a Magazine on the subject of Dr. Pusey's Tract on Baptism.Newman
8329 June 1838Advent Sermons on Antichrist.Newman
8424 August 1838Whether a Clergyman of the Church of England be now bound to have Morning and Evening Prayers daily in his Parish Church. Thomas Keble, conclusion by George Prevost.
8521 September 1838Letters on the Scripture proof of the Doctrines of the Church. Part I.Newman
8625 March 1839Indications of a superintending Providence in the preservation of the Prayer-book and in the changes which it has undergone. Isaac Williams
872 February 1840On Reserve in communicating Religious Knowledge (conclusion). Isaac Williams Ad Clerum.
8825 March 1840The Greek Devotions of Bishop Andrews, translated and arranged.Newman
89[Undated]On the Mysticism Attributed to the Fathers of the Church. John Keble "...an attempted exposition of the “principles” governing patristic figurative exegesis of the Scriptures" [34] It was attacked by Samuel Roffey Maitland in A letter to a friend, on the Tract for the times, no. 89 (1841). [35]
90 25 January 1841 [8] Remarks on Certain Passages in the Thirty-Nine Articles John Henry Newman A protest within the University of Oxford was brought against Tract 90 by John Griffiths, Thomas Churton, Henry Bristow Wilson, and Archibald Tait; [36] the resulting furore eventually led the Bishop of Oxford to bring the series to a close.

Further publications

Two other ambitious projects of the Oxford Movement as a whole were conceived and launched in the same period: the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology that gave extensive republication to the works of the Caroline Divines and others who were cited in the Tracts; and the Library of the Fathers . Isaac Williams with William John Copeland edited Plain Sermons by Contributors to the Tracts for the Times, in ten volumes, appearing from 1839 to 1848. [31]

Notes

  1. "Rose, Hugh James"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  2. "Rivington, Francis"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  3. Peter Toon, Evangelical Theology 1833–1856: A response to Tractarianism (1979), p. 119.
  4. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Benson, Christopher"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  5. "Bagot, Richard"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  6. Internet Archive
  7. The ideal of a Christian Church considered in comparison with existing practice, containing A defence of certain articles in the British critic, in reply to remarks on them in Mr. Palmer's Narrative (1844); online at archive.org.
  8. 1 2 Donald S. Armentrout, Robert Boak Slocum, An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church: a user-friendly reference for Episcopalians (2005), p. 523.
  9. John Henry Newman. "Modern History Sourcebook : Tracts for the Times 1 : Thoughts on the Ministerial Commission, 1833". Fordham.edu. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  10. "Tract 3: Thoughts respectfully addressed to the Clergy on alterations in the Liturgy (Newman)". people.bath.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 27 August 2007. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  11. Keble, John. "Modern History Sourcebook : Tracts for the Times 4 : Adherence to the Apostolical Succession the safest course. On Alterations in the Prayer-book, 1833". Fordham.edu. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  12. "Tracts for the Times - Tract 6". Newman Reader. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  13. "Tracts for the Times - Tract 7". Newman Reader. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  14. "Tracts for the Times - Tract 8". Newman Reader. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  15. "Title". Anglicanhistory.org. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  16. "Menzies, Alfred(1834–1835) (CCEd Person ID 82269)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835 . Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  17. "A history of the family of Holland of Mobberley and Knutsford in the country of Chester". Archive.org. 21 July 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  18. The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 160, p. 561
  19. 1 2 Benjamin J. King (7 May 2009). Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers: Shaping Doctrine in Nineteenth-Century England. Oxford University Press. p. 30. ISBN   978-0-19-954813-2 . Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  20. "Via Media 2 - Retractation". Newman Reader. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  21. 1 2 "Pusey, Edward Bouverie"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  22. Sheridan Gilley, Newman and His Age (2003), p. 148.
  23. "Tracts for the Times - Tract 74". Newman Reader. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  24. "The Historic Episcopate and Apostolic Succession, by Edwin Harwood (1887)". Anglicanhistory.org. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  25. Withey, Donald. "Williams, Robert (1811–1890)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51390.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  26. "Modern History Sourcebook : The Tracts for the Times, 1833-1841". Fordham.edu. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  27. "Tracts for the Times - Tract 76". Newman Reader. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  28. 1 2 Cobb, Peter G. "Pusey, Edward Bouverie". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22910.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  29. W. J. Mander, Alan P. F. Sell, The Dictionary of Nineteenth-century British Philosophers (2002) vol. 2 p. 932.
  30. "Monk, James Henry"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  31. 1 2 "Williams, Isaac"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  32. "Hughes, John (HHS699J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  33. "WORDS: BIOG: Hughes, John [1682–1710]". Words.fromoldbooks.org. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  34. The Reverend Doctor Ephraim Radner. "The Discrepancies of Two Ages : Thoughts on Keble's "Mysticism of the Fathers"" (PDF). Anglicanhistory.org. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  35. "A letter to a friend, on the Tract for the times, no. 89 : Maitland, Samuel Roffey, 1792-1866". Archive.org. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  36. "Griffiths, John (1806-1885)"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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