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{{Short description|19th-century English religious movement}}
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The '''Oxford Movement''' was a theological movement of [[high church]] members of the [[Church of England]] which began in the 1830s and 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 [[Branch Theory|three branches]] of the "[[Four Marks of the Church|one, holy, catholic, and apostolic]]" [[Christian Church]]. Many key participants subsequently converted to [[Roman Catholicism]]. 

'''Tractarianism''', the movement's philosophy, was named after a series of publications, the ''[[Tracts for the Times]]'', written to promote the movement. Tractarians were often disparagingly referred to as "Newmanites" (before 1845) and "Puseyites", after two prominent Tractarians, [[John Henry Newman]] and [[Edward Bouverie Pusey]]. Other well-known Tractarians included [[John Keble]], [[Charles Marriott (Tractarian)|Charles Marriott]], [[Richard Froude]], [[Robert Wilberforce]], [[Isaac Williams (writer)|Isaac Williams]] and [[William Palmer (theologian)|William Palmer]]. All except Williams and Palmer were fellows of [[Oriel College, Oxford]].