The Making of Modern English Theology
God and the Academy at Oxford, 1833-1945
Description:... The Making of Modern English Theology is the
first historical account of theology’s modern institutional origins in the
United Kingdom. Having avoided the revolutionary upheaval experienced by
continental institutions and free from any constitutional separation of church
and state, English theologians were granted a relative freedom to develop their
discipline in a fashion distinctive from other European and North American
institutions. This book explores how Oxford theology, from the beginnings
of the Tractarian movement until the end of the Second World
War, both influenced and responded to the reform of the university.
Neither becoming unbendingly confessional nor reduced to the secular study
of religion, the Oxford faculty instead emerged as an important ecumenical
body, rooted in the life and practice of the English
churches, whilst still being located in the heart of a globally
influential research university as a department of the humanities. This is
an institutional history of reaction and radicalism, animosity and
imagination, and explores the complex and shifting interactions
between church, nation, and academy that have defined theological life in
England since the early nineteenth century.
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