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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.
…of the tracts, published as Tracts for the Times (1833–41), that promoted the Oxford movement, which sought to reassert the Roman Catholic identity of the Church of England. His subsequent religious development is memorably described in his Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864), one of the many great autobiographies of this…
The Tracts for the Times were written by leaders of " the Oxford Movement." The first three Tracts were four-page leaflets published anonymously in 1833. In the first, John Henry Newman sounded a call to clergy of the Church of England to exalt their office because of its "Apolostical Descent."
Tracts for the Times. Advertisement to the Tracts, by John Henry Newman. Introduction to the Second American Edition of the Tracts. Tract Number 1 -- Thoughts on the Ministerial Commission. Tract Number 2 -- The Catholic Church. Tract Number 3 -- On Alterations in the Liturgy.
The title of a series of pamphlets on theological topics started by John Henry Newman and published in Oxford 1833–41, which set out the doctrines on which the Oxford Movement or Tractarianism was based.
Also known as “Tractarianism” because its views were published in ninety religious pamphlets called Tracts for the Times (1833–1841), the Oxford Movement was launched in the early 1830s by Anglican clergymen at Oxford University.
Inspired by the writings of the Fathers of the Church, and bolstered by leading Anglican divines, the Tracts began in the form of frequent, short, and pithy statements which by 1836 gave way to much longer, erudite, and less frequent publications.
