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Edward Bouverie Pusey
and the Oxford MovementEdward Bouverie Pusey
and the Oxford Movement
Edited by Rowan Strong
and Carol Engelhardt HerringerAnthem Press
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Edward Bouverie Pusey and the Oxford movement / edited by Rowan Strong
and Carol Engelhardt Herringer.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-85728-565-2 (hardback : alk. paper)
1. Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie), 1800–1882. 2. Oxford movement.
3. Church of England–Clergy–Biogrpahy. I. Strong, Rowan.
II. Herringer, Carol Engelhardt.
BX5199.P9E39 2012
283.092–dc23
2012030102
ISBN-13: 978 0 85728 565 2 (Hbk)
ISBN-10: 0 85728 565 3 (Hbk)
This title is also available as an eBook.CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Chapter One Introduction 1
Rowan Strong and Carol Engelhardt Herringer
Chapter Two The History of the History of Pusey 13
Ian McCormack
Chapter Three Editing Liddon: From Biography to Hagiography? 31
K. E. Macnab
Chapter Four From Modern-Orthodox Protestantism to
Anglo-Catholicism: An Enquiry into the Probable
Causes of the Revolution of Pusey’s Theology 49
Albrecht Geck
Chapter Five Defi ning the Church: Pusey’s Ecclesiology and
its Eighteenth-Century Antecedents 67
R. Barry Levis
Chapter Six Pusey’s Eucharistic Doctrine 91
Carol Engelhardt Herringer
Chapter Seven Pusey, Alexander Forbes and the First
Vatican Council 115
Mark Chapman
Chapter Eight Pusey and the Scottish Episcopal Church:
Tractarian Diversity and Divergence 133
Rowan Strong
Bibliography 149
Index 161ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Pusey House, Oxford, has been a home from home for countless scholars,
who come for its vast collection of materials on the Oxford Movement as well
as on patristics and liturgy, and then happily fi nd themselves in a community
of scholars whose transience is alleviated by their frequent return visits. In
many signifi cant ways, this volume would not exist if Pusey House did not
exist. The work produced in these pages is very often the product of work
begun or continued in Pusey House Library, often with the guidance of the
previous custodian, Fr William Davage; the previous priest librarian, Kenneth
Macnab; and the current priest librarian, Fr Barry Orford. They, along with
the previous and current principals, Fr Phillip Ursell and the Right Reverend
Jonathan Baker, have ensured that Pusey House is a place of scholarship for
scholars from around the world.
In a more practical way, this volume would not exist without Fr Davage
and Fr Orford, who fi rst proposed holding a conference to celebrate Edward
Pusey, an idea that delighted Carol Engelhardt Herringer when she read about
it in the Pusey House newsletter in 2007. These three declared themselves
a programme committee, and arrangements were made to hold a three-day
conference, ‘Edward Bouverie Pusey and the Catholic Revival’, at Ascot
Priory, Berkshire, on 14–16 September 2009.
At the conference, ten scholars from Britain, the Continent, North America
and Australia presented papers on the ideas and infl uence of Edward Bouverie
Pusey. In addition to the papers that were expanded and developed to become
the essays that make up this volume, Fr Orford, Serenhedd James, and
Victoria Houseman also presented papers, which we hope will be published in
the future. During the conference, Fr Ursell, now the warden of Ascot Priory,
was a gracious host. We are also grateful to those who attended the conference
without presenting a paper, for their comments helped the participants think
through their ideas before presenting them in this volume.
Finally, we wish to express our thanks to Jill Strong and Tom Herringer,
who provide us with comfort and intellectual stimulation and who have heard
far more about Edward Bouverie Pusey and the Oxford Movement than they
ever thought possible.NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Mark Chapman is vice-principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford,
reader in modern theology at the University of Oxford and visiting professor
in church history at Oxford Brookes University. He has written widely in
many different areas of theology and history. His most recent book is Anglican
Theology (T&T Clark, 2012).
Privatdozent Albrecht Geck teaches church history at the University of
Osnabruck and religious studies in Herne (Pestalozzi Grammar School). He
completed his doctorate on the religious politics of Friedrich Schleiermacher
and has also published widely on the relations between Anglican and
German Lutheran theology. His most recent book is a critical edition of
the correspondence between Edward Pusey and Friedrich Tholuck. He is
director of the Institute of Contemporary Church History in Recklinghausen,
Westphalia.
Carol Engelhardt Herringer is professor of history at Wright State
University. She is the author of Victorians and the Virgin Mary: Religion and Gender in
England 1830–85 (Manchester University Press, 2008). She is currently working
on a book on the cultural signifi cance of the debates over the Eucharist in the
Victorian Church of England.
R. Barry Levis is professor of history at Rollins College. His research
focuses on the intersection of culture, politics and religion in
eighteenthcentury England. He has published a series of articles exploring the impact
of the Hanoverian Succession on the Church of England as manifested in
architecture, music and preaching.
Kenneth Macnab was priest librarian of Pusey House from 1993 to 1998 with
particular responsibility for the archive. Subsequently he was vicar of St Barnabas,
Tunbridge Wells. Since 2005 he has taught theology, history and classics at The
Oratory School, John Henry Newman’s foundation, in Oxfordshire. His current
projects include a study of the historiography of the Oxford Movement focusing
particularly on Pusey, Keble and Marriott after 1845.x EDWARD BOUVERIE PUSEY AND THE OXFORD MOVEMENT
Ian McCormack is the assistant curate of Horbury with Horbury Bridge
in the diocese of Wakefi eld. He read modern history at the University of
Oxford, and theology and pastoral studies at the University of Leeds. Previous
research projects have included the revival of the religious life in the Church
of England and the life and work of the Community of the Resurrection
in Southern Africa post-1955. He trained for ordination at the College of the
Resurrection, Mirfi eld.
Rowan Strong is associate professor of church history at Murdoch University
in Perth, Australia. He has published extensively on Christianity and the
British Empire, including Anglicanism and the British Empire c.1700–1850 (Oxford
University Press, 2007), and is the series editor for the forthcoming series on
the history of Anglicanism with Oxford University Press. Rowan Strong is a
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.Chapter One
INTRODUCTION
Rowan Strong and Carol Engelhardt Herringer
In an era noted for its outsized personalities and high achievers, Edward
Bouverie Pusey was one of the most prominent and infl uential Victorians. Born
into a minor aristocratic family and educated at Eton and Oxford, his early
academic success culminated in his appointment as canon of Christ Church,
Oxford, and Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford at age
28. For the rest of his long life, from this prestigious academic position Pusey
was at the forefront of public disputes over religion. As one of the co-leaders
of the Oxford Movement, he was a staunch defender of the Catholic identity
of the Church of England; he was also a very infl uential fi gure to the younger
generation of Anglo-Catholics, including his biographer Henry Parry Liddon
and Christina Rossetti.
Shortly after his death, Pusey’s life and achievements were commemorated
in the four-volume Life of Pusey, begun by Liddon and completed after Liddon’s
death by John Octavius Johnston, Robert John Wilson and William Charles
Edmund Newbolt; and in Pusey House, which still houses a library, chapel,
and rooms for scholars. Yet since that fl urry of post-mortem recognition,
Pusey has largely dropped from public memory, and from prominence among
scholars of nineteenth-century British Christianity. When he is remembered,