Oxford Movement

The 19th-century Anglican theological movement centered at Oxford — the Tractarians — who argued for recovering Catholic tradition within the Church of England, leading some (including Newman) to convert to Rome.

The Oxford Movement's Tracts for the Times (1833–1841): 90 theological tracts arguing that the Church of England was a branch of the one Catholic Church, with authority derived from apostolic succession rather than parliamentary establishment. High Church theology: recovery of Catholic liturgical practice, sacramentalism, and patristic theology within Anglicanism. Newman's Tract XC (1841): argued that the Thirty-Nine Articles were compatible with Roman Catholicism — caused a scandal and led to his conversion to Rome (1845). Anglo-Catholicism as lasting legacy: the High Church tradition in Anglicanism traces directly to the Oxford Movement.