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Author Faber, G. C. (Geoffrey Cust), 1889-1961, author

Title Oxford apostles : a character study of the Oxford movement / Geoffrey Faber
Edition Rev edition
Published Harmondsworth : Penguin in association with Faber and Faber, 1954
Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books in association with Faber and Faber, 1954

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Description 442 pages ; 18 cm
Series A Pelican book ; A 300
Pelican book ; A300
Contents 1. Newman: The beginnings -- 1. Sketch of a background -- 2. Boyhood -- 3. Conversion -- 4. 'The deep imagination' -- 2. Newman at Oxford: the first phase -- 1. Matriculation -- 2. Sketch of a university -- 3. Undergraduate -- 4. Failure and recovery -- 5. Success -- 3. Cross-section -- 1. The parties in the church -- 2. Keble -- 3. Copleston and Whately -- 4. Hawkins and the oriel common room -- 4. Incubation -- 1. Pusey and Lloyd -- 2. Pusey -- 3. Shadows of coming events -- 4. The curate of St. Clement's -- 5. The Tutor of Oriel and the Vicar of St. Mary's -- 1. The new broom -- 2. The beginnings of leadership -- 3. Shock -- 4. St. Mary's pulpit -- 6. Secret forces -- 1. Froude and Issac Williams -- 2. Froude's journal -- 3. Virginity and friendship -- 7. 'Becoming a churchman' -- 1. War in Oriel -- 2. First blows for the church -- 3. The church in danger -- 4. 'A vow had bound him' -- 5. The streams converging -- 8. Mediterranean interlude -- 1. First impressions of travel -- 2. The isles of Greece -- 3. Egesta -- 4. Naples -- 5. Rome -- 6. Isolation -- 7. Judgment -- 9. The whirlpool -- 1. Generalities -- 2. Beginning of the tracts -- 3. Hampden -- 4. 'Subscription' -- 5. The first victory -- 6. The zenith -- 10. The cataclysm -- 1. Earth tremors -- 2. Pusey in profundis -- 3. The fatal summer -- 4. Tract 90 -- 5. Retreat -- 6. The penultimate stage -- 7. Finale
Summary Fr. Richard Schiefen, C.S.B. Collection
Notes Originally published 1936
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-423) and index
Subject Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890.
Church and state -- Church of England.
Church history.
Oxford movement.
LC no. 36032925