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Article: Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism.
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- National Review
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- December 31, 1996
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A BYSTANDER observing the tumult within the Anglican Communion these days might be forgiven for coming away with the impression that everything had gone along serenely (if the people he is listening to are traditionalists) or stultifyingly (if they are modernists) from 1662 to about 1960.
In fact, the calm that (mostly) prevailed from the mid 1930s to the late 1950s was something of an aberration. Leaving aside various battles over ecclesiastical polity, there had been two major upheavals since 1662, both of them beginning in Oxford: the Wesleyan revival (soon dubbed Methodism by its opponents) in the 1730s, and the Anglo-Catholic revival (the Oxford Movement) in the ...