Adult Formation at All Souls

Fall 2025

The Oxford Movement: An Enduring Anglican Legacy

In the 1830s, a group of Oxford dons began publishing a series of tracts that would ignite a revival movement in the Church of England. Warning against the rise of rationalism and individualism, the theologians of what became known as the Oxford Movement believed that the Church in England must cast off its creeping secularism and proclaim itself as the glorious supernatural gathering of those who belong to Jesus Christ. They believed in the Church’s potential to draw people to the Lord’s presence in Spirit and Sacrament. They envisioned the Church’s capacity to capture the imagination of the souls of the English people through transcendent and embodied worship, retrieval of the teaching of the Church fathers, literature, music, and church architecture. Their vision has had a lasting impact on Anglican worship and theology. This series will explore these legacies.