单词 | oxford tracts |
释义 | > as lemmasOxford Tracts b. Tracts for the Times: the title of a series of pamphlets on theological and ecclesiastical topics (known also as the Oxford Tracts, or simply the Tracts) started by J. H. Newman, and published at Oxford 1833–1841, on the doctrines of which the Tractarian movement was based; also used in singular with lower-case initials, of any literary work put out to meet a particular need of the times. The earlier of these were, in accordance with their title, brief pamphlets; but some of the later, e.g. that of Pusey on Baptism, were extended treatises, tracts in sense 2. The aim of the series was ‘to arrest the advance of Liberalism in religious thought, and to revive’ what the writers held to be ‘the true conception of the relation of the Church of England to the Catholic Church at large’ ( Churchman's Guide). The last Tract, No. 90, by J. H. Newman, ‘On Certain Passages in the XXXIX Articles’, ‘called forth a storm of reprobation; at the instance of Four Tutors, the Heads of the Oxford Colleges pronounced censure upon the author’, and at the request of the Bishop of Oxford the publication of the Tracts ceased. In the sequel, many who sympathized with the teaching of the Tracts (including at length Newman himself) seceded to the Church of Rome. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > treatise or dissertation > [noun] > specific treatises aloedary1753 Tracts for the Times1834 Oxford Tract1836 Little Red Book1966 1834 (title) Tracts for the Times. By Members of the University of Oxford. 1868 J. T. Coleridge Mem. J. Keble (1870) xii. 276 It was Mr. Benson..who gave the authors and favourers of the Tracts the perfectly inoffensive name of Tractarian. 1881 J. A. Froude Short Stud. (1883) 4th Ser. 175 These were the views which we used to hear when the Tracts were first beginning. 1893 H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey I. xii. 277 The first Tracts are dated at the beginning of September (1833). They were generally short, several keeping within the suggested limit of four pages: they were chiefly concerned with the constitution, ordinances, and services of the Church. 1927 A. H. McNeile Introd. N.T. 95 The Tübingen conception of the book [sc. the Acts of the Apostles] as a tract for the times mediating between the Judaic and the Pauline factions. 1979 E. H. Gombrich Sense of Order ii. 41 As a tract for the times the Seven Lamps failed to achieve Ruskin's aim of bringing the conditions of the Middle Ages back to industrialized England. < as lemmas |
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