What is "oxford movement"

Oxford \Ox"ford\, prop. a. Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.

Oxford movement. See Tractarianism.

Oxford School, a name given to those members of the Church of England who adopted the theology of the so-called Oxford ``Tracts for the Times,'' issued the period 1833 -- 1841.
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Oxford tie, a kind of shoe, laced on the instep, and usually covering the foot nearly to the ankle.

The Oxford Movement was a movement of High Church members of the Church of England which eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement, whose original devotees were mostly associated with the University of Oxford, argued for the reinstatement of some older Christian traditions of faith and their inclusion into Anglican liturgy and theology. They thought of Anglicanism as one of three branches of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.

The movement's philosophy was known as Tractarianism after its series of publications, the Tracts for the Times, published from 1833 to 1841. Tractarians were also disparagingly referred to as "Newmanites" (before 1845) and "Puseyites" (after 1845) after two prominent Tractarians, John Henry Newman and Edward Bouverie Pusey. Other well-known Tractarians included John Keble, Charles Marriott, Richard Froude, Robert Wilberforce, Isaac Williams and William Palmer.