SOURCE: "Oxford, Tract 90 and the Bishops," in John Henry Newman: Reason, Rhetoric and Romanticism, edited by David Nicholls and Fergus Kerr, OP, The Bristol Press, 1991, pp. 28-87.

In the essay that follows, Nockles discusses the Anglican response to the publication of Newman 's Tract 90, which marked a crucial episode in Newman 's conversion to Catholicism and in the popular attitude toward Tractarianism.

For many, the claim of John Henry Newman to fame and greatness rests on that period of his Anglican career when he was the acknowledged inspiration and leader of a well-known High Church revival of religious life and thought within the Church of England which emanated from within the University of Oxford during the period 1833 to 1845. This revival was known, due to its place of origin, as the Oxford Movement, or Tractarianism after the series called 'Tracts for the Times' which the Movement's leaders, Keble, Froude...