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Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey by Henry Parry Liddon, D.D.

Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey by Henry Parry Liddon, D.D.

London: Longmans, 1894 Contents of Four Volumes

Transcribed by The Revd R D Hacking AD 2002

CONTENTS

VOLUME I

Chapter I. PARENTAGE—EARLY LIFE AT HOME—SCHOOL DAYS AT MITCHAM—ETON—CHRIST CHURCH. 1800-1822.

Chapter II. SWISS TOUR—BYRONISM—FIRST CONTACT WITH UNBELIEF—MARRIAGE OF PHILIP PUSEY. 1822.

Chapter III. ORIEL COLLEGE—FIRST INTRODUCTION TO NEWMAN—ELECTION TO FELLOWSHIP—EARLY ESTIMATE OF PUSEY—DR. LLOYD’S LECTURES—LATIN ESSAY PRIZE. 1823-1824.

Chapter IV. FIRST VISIT TO GERMANY—EICHHORN, THOLUCK, SCHLEIERMACHER, NEANDER, AND OTHER PROFESSORS—LITERARY PLANS, 1825—1826.

Chapter V. SECOND VISIT TO GERMANY—LECTURES AT BERLIN—ARABIC STUDIES— KOSEGARTEN—LIFE AT BONN—FREYTAG—LOCKE—SACK —PUSEY’S RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE—DEATH OF YOUNGEST BROTHER—OVERWORK—DR. LLOYD, BISHOP OF OXFORD. 1826-1827

Chapter VI. ENGAGEMENT TO MISS BARKER—REVISION OF THE AUTHORIZED VERSION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT—ILLNESS—CORRESPONDENCE WITH MISS BARKER. 1827—1828.

Chapter VII. THE PROVOSTSHIP OF ORIEL—DEATH OF MR. PUSEY—ORDINATION— MARRIAGE—FIRST SERMON. 1828.

Chapter VIII. CONTROVERSY WITH REV. H. J. ROSE ON THE THEOLOGY OF GERMANY. 1828—1830.

Chapter IX. RETURN TO OXFORD—DEATH OF HEBREW PROFESSOR—APPOINTMENT TO PROFESSORSHIP—ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD—INSTALLATION AS CANON. 1828.

Chapter X. IN RESIDENCE AT CHRIST CHURCH—COMMENCEMENT OF HEBREW LECTURES —ELECTION OF 1829—DEATH OF BISHOP LLOYD—ARABIC CATALOGUE—OXFORD SOCIETY IN 1830—SEVERE ILLNESS—SANSCRIT PROFESSORSHIP—PUSEY AND ELLERTON SCHOLARSHIPS—INFIDEL LECTURES—BRITISH ASSOCIATION—FIRST UNIVERSITY SERMON—DEATH OF YOUNGEST CHILD—‘REMARKS ON CATHEDRAL INSTITUTIONS.’ 1829—1832.

Chapter XI. RISE OF THE OXFORD MOVEMENT—REACTION FROM EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY THOUGHT—WALTER SCOTT—COLERIDGE—THE EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT —DR.SIKES—JOSHUA WATSON—ALEXANDER KNOX—HUGH JAMES ROSE—REVOLUTIONARY ECCLESIASTICAL PROPOSALS—THE HADLEIGH CONFERENCE—THE ‘FRIENDS OF THE CHURCH’—THE TRACTS—KEBLE—NEWMAN—PUSEY.

Chapter XII. THE EARLY TRACTS—PUSEY’S FIRST TRACT, ON FASTING—ARNOLD’S CRITICISMS—ILLNESS—CONTROVERSY ABOUT SUBSCRIPTION—THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON CHANCELLOR—PROPOSED HEBREW NEW TESTAMENT. 1833—1834.

Chapter XIII. DR. HAMPDEN ON SUBSCRIPTION—THE DOGMATIC PRINCIPLE—PUSEY’S DEFENCE OF SUBSCRIPTION—A DECLARATION PROPOSED—MR. GLADSTONE’S VIEWS—THE PROVOST OF ORIEL’S PAMPHLET—PUSEY’S REPLY—BLANCO WHITE, A SOCINIAN—CORRESPONDENCE. 1834-1835.

Chapter XIV. THOLUCK’S VISIT TO OXFORD—STUDIES ON THE SACRAMENTS—CHRIST CHURCH BUSINESS—CHURCHES IN EAST LONDON—THE THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY—ASSISTANCE TO GRADUATE STUDENTS OF THEOLOGY. 1835—1836.

Chapter XV. THE TRACT ON BAPTISM—CONTINUANCE AND EDITORSHIP OF THE ‘TRACTS FOR THE TIMES’ IN DOUBT—1835.

Chapter XVI. THE HAMPDEN CONTROVERSY—BLANCO WHITE’S INFLUENCE—HAMPDEN, BAMPTON LECTURER—MORAL PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR—APPOINTED REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY—OPPOSITION—DR. ARNOLD’S VIOLENT ATTACK ON THE TRACTARIANS—HAMPDEN DISQUALIFIED—DEAN CHURCH’S JUDGMENT ON THE CONTROVERSY. 1836.

Chapter XVII. ON SACRILEGE—ON PRAYER—ON CATHEDRAL REFORM—OLD TESTAMENT STUDIES—THE MINISTRY OF THE PRIESTHOOD—CATHOLIC PRINCIPLES—CAMBRIDGE VISITORS—IMPRESSIONS OF OXFORD. 1836.

Chapter XVIII. THE LIBRARY OF THE FATHERS. 1836.

VOLUME II

Chapter XIX. ROMAN CONTROVERSY AND CHARGES OF ROMANIZING—TRACTS ON ROMANISM—ON PRAYER FOR THE DEAD—ON PURGATORY—ATTACKS FROM THE ‘RECORD’ AND ‘CHRISTIAN OBSERVER ‘—ARCHDEACON SPOONER —LETTER TO BISHOP BAGOT. 1836—1837.

Chapter XX. PROGRESS—S. P. C. K. COMMITTEES—KEBLE’S SERMONS—VISIT TO GUERNSEY—FIFTH OF NOVEMBER SERMON—TRACT ON THE HOLY EUCHARIST—MISSIONARY EXHIBITIONS—COLLEGES OF CLERGY FOR LARGE TOWNS—DR. HOOK AND THE TRACTS—HARRISON, CHAPLAIN TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. 1837—1838.

Chapter XXI. BISHOP BAGOT’S CHARGE OF 1838—PROPOSED MARTYRS MEMORIAL—PUBLIC LETTER TO BISHOP BAGOT. 1838—1839.

Chapter XXII. MRS. PUSEY’S PHILANTHROPIC AND RELIGIOUS WORK—HER ILLNESS—CONDITIONAL BAPTISM—STAY AT WEYMOUTH—PUSEY’S SERMONS FOR S. P. G.—MORE ALARMING ILLNESS OF MRS. PUSEY—APPROACH OF DEATH—TRINITY SUNDAY, 1839—SYMPATHY OF FRIENDS—BURIAL IN CATHEDRAL—A LIVING SORROW. 1839.

Chapter XXIII. RETIREMENT FROM SOCIETY—DEEPENED TONE OF PREACHING—A NARROW ESCAPE—KEBLE’S PSALMS—STAY AT BRIGHTON—CRITICISM OF BAPTISMAL TRACT BY AN EVANGELICAL. 1839.

Chapter XXIV. UNION FOR PRAYER—THE LITTLEMORE ‘MONASTERY’—WHAT IS PUSEYISM?—THE ORNAMENTS RUBRIC—PROPOSAL TO PRINT THE SARUM BREVIARY—RELATIONS WITH THE EASTERN CHURCH—FEARS OF SECESSION—GATHERING HOSTILITY.1840.

Chapter XXV. TRACT 90—GENESIS AND METHOD OF THE TRACT—LETTER OF THE FOUR TUTORS—NEWMAN’S REPLY—CENSURE PUBLISHED BY THE HEADS OF HOUSES—OPINIONS ON THE CENSURE—CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE BISHOP—DIFFICULTIES OF THE SITUATION—AN ARRANGEMENT—NEWMAN’S LETTER TO THE BISHOP—PALMER’S PROPOSED DECLARATION—PUSEY’S LETTER TO JELF. 1841.

Chapter XXVI. CONSEQUENCES OF TRACT 90—WARD AND OAKELEY—DIVERGENT VIEWS OF THE REFORMATION—TREATMENT OF MR. KEBLE’S CURATE—PUSEY’S VISIT TO THE ARCHBISHOP—EPISCOPAL CHARGES. 1841.

Chapter XXVII. VISIT TO IRELAND—THE JERUSALEM BISHOPRIC—THE POETRY PROFESSORSHIP—FRIENDLY REMONSTRANCES. 1841-1842.

Chapter XXVIII. PUBLISHED LETTER TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY—THEOLOGICAL PROFESSORSHIP—CENSURE ON HAMPDEN REAFFIRMED—FEARS OF SECESSIONS—NEWMAN’S MISGIVINGS—DEATH OF DR. ARNOLD—NEWMAN’S RETRACTATION—PUSEY’S TRUST IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. 1842—1843.

Chapter XXIX. PUSEY’ S CONDEMNATION—SERMON ON THE EUCHARIST—DELATION—CONDEMNATION WITHOUT A HEARING—FAILURE OF ATTEMPTS TO SECURE RECANTATION—SENTENCE OF SUSPENSION—PUSEY’ S PROTEST—WEIGHTY REMONSTRANCES—SERMON PUBLISHED—ATTEMPTS TO OBTAIN LEGAL REDRESS. 1843.

Chapter XXX. NEWMAN’ S RESIGNATION OF ST. MARY’ S—LUCY PUSEY’ S DEATH—ADAPTATION OF FOREIGN DEVOTIONAL BOOKS—RENEWED PROPOSAL TO TRANSLATE THE SARUM BREVIARY. 1843—1844.

Chapter XXXI. VISIT TO ILFRACOMBE—PREACHING WITH THE BISHOP OF EXETER’ S SANCTION—NEWMAN’ S POSITION—PUSEY’S FEARS AND HOPES—DEATH OF MR. J. W. BOWDEN. 1844.

Chapter XXXII. OPPOSITION TO THE NEW VICE-CHANCELLOR—DEFEAT—PROPOSED NEW UNIVERSITY TEST—CONDEMNATION OF MR. WARD—ATTEMPTED CONDEMNATION OF TRACT 90—PROSECUTION OF MR. OAKELEY.—1844—1845.

Chapter XXXIII. RUMOURS AND ANXIETIES—AN APPEAL FROM PUSEY—MANNING’ S FEELING TOWARDS ROME—NEWMAN’ S SECESSION—PUSEY’ S LETTER TO THE ‘ENGLISH CHURCHMAN’—KEBLE’ S COMMENTS—REVIEW OF PUSEY’ S POSITION. 1844—1845.

Chapter XXXIV. ST. SAVIOUR’ S, LEEDS—FIRST PROJECT OF A CHURCH FOR LEEDS—LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE—COSTLY GIFTS—ALTAR PLATE—ALARM AT SECESSIONS—OBJECTIONS RAISED BY HOOK AND THE BISHOP OF RIPON—CONSECRATION—SERMONS—AN ADDRESS TO THE BISHOP— PUSEY’ S ANTI-ROMAN POSITION—RELATIONS TO NEWMAN—HIS UNCHANGING FAITH IN THE ENGLISH CHURCH—NEWMAN’ S MATURE ESTIMATE OF PUSEY. 1845-1846.

VOLUME III

Chapter I. EARLY DAYS OF ANGLICAN SISTERHOODS—1845.

Chapter II. RELATIONS WITH BISHOP WILBERFORCE—FIRST UNIVERSITY SERMON AFTER SUSPENSION . 1845—1846

Chapter III. THE JERUSALEM BISHOPRIC—BISHOP GOBAT’S APPOINTMENT—SCHEMES FOR EXTENSION OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION—ILLNESS AT TENBY—1846

Chapter IV. PENITENCE AND CONFESSION. 1846.

Chapter V. ST. SAVIOUR’S, LEEDS—THE FIRST HARVEST OF DISAPPOINTMENT

Chapter VI. PUSEY S ISOLATION—HIS ATTITUDE TOWARDS ROME MISUNDERSTOOD—LETTERS TO MR. GLADSTONE—PROJECT OF A COMMENTARY ON HOLY SCRIPTURE—LAST PHASE OF THE HAMPDEN CONTROVERSY—1847—1848

Chapter VII. CARE OF THE POOR—IRISH FAMINE—FREE TRADE—GLADSTONE’S ELECTION FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY—ADMISSION OF JEWS TO PARLIAMENT—DECEASED WIFE’S SISTER BILL—1845-1849

Chapter VIII. HAYLING ISLAND—VOCATIONS TO A SINGLE LIFE—PARK VILLAGE—MISS SELLON—FOUNDATION OF THE DEVONPORT SOCIETY—THE BISHOP OF EXETER’S INQUIRY—THE CHOLERA AT DEVONPORT. 1847—1849

Chapter IX. THE GORHAM CASE—THE BAPTISMAL CONTROVERSY—1847-1850

Chapter X. RESULTS OF THE GORHAM CONTROVERSY—PROCEEDINGS IN LONDON CHURCH UNION—WORK ON THE ROYAL SUPREMACY—CONTROVERSIES WITH MASKELL, ALLIES, AND DODSWORTH—LETTER TO REV. W. U. RICHARDS. 1850

Chapter XI. PROTEST ON THE ROYAL SUPREMACY—PROPOSED ANTI-ROMAN DECLARATION—DECLARATION OF LOYALTY TO THE ENGLISH CHURCH BY PUSEY AND KEBLE—SECESSIONS OF ARCHDEACONS MANNING AND R. I. WILBERFORCE 1850.

Chapter XII. PAPAL AGGRESSION—BISHOP BLOMFIELD’S CHARGE—LETTER TO BISHOP OF LONDON—BISHOP WILBERFORCE’S INHIBITION—INHIBITION WITHDRAWN 1850—1852

Chapter XIII. THE EXETER SYNOD—PLACE OF LAITY IN SYNODS—REVIVAL OF CONVOCATION—BOOK ON THE COUNCILS OF THE CHURCH—1852.

Chapter XIV. ST. SAVIOUR’S, LEEDS—THE SECOND HARVEST OF DISAPPOINTMENT—CORRESPONDENCE: BEGINNINGS OF RITUALISM—PENITENTIARIES—IRVINGISM—PURGATORY—1850—1852

Chapter XV. THE UNIVERSITY REFORM ACT OF 1854.

Chapter XVI. COMMEMORATION, 1853—FIRST ELECTION TO HEBDOMADAL COUNCIL—UNIVERSITY BUSINESS—DEATHS OF LADY EMILY PUSEY, PHILIP PUSEY, LADY LUCY PUSEY, DEAN GAISFORD, DR. MILL, CHARLES MARRIOTT. 1858—1858

Chapter XVII. SECOND PERIOD OF EUCHARISTIC CONTROVERSY—SERMON ON THE HOLY EUCHARIST—CASE OF ARCHDEACON DENISON—CHARGE OF THE BISHOP OF BRECHIN—1858-1860.

VOLUME IV

Chapter I. THEOLOGICAL LIBERALISM IN OXFORD—SERMONS ON THE NATURE OF FAITH—THE NEW PROFESSOR OF GREEK—PROPOSED INCREASE OF ENDOWMENT FOR THE GREEK CHAIR—PROSECUTION OF PROFESSOR JOWETT—ENDOWMENT OF THE CHAIR 1860.

Chapter II. ‘ESSAYS AND REVIEWS’—ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS—THE OXFORD DECLARATION—CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE REV. F. D. MAURICE AND DEAN STANLEY—1860.

Chapter III ‘ESSAYS AND REVIEWS’: THEOLOGICAL REPLIES—LECTURES ON DANIEL—UNIVERSITY SERMONS—PAPER AT NORWICH CHURCH CONGRESS—THE FINAL COURT OF APPEAL—CASE AS TO THE LEGAL FORCE OF THE JUDGMENT 1861-1865

Chapter IV. DR. MANNINGS ATTACK ON THE ENGLISH CHURCH—PUSEY’S REPLY—PROPOSED ROMAN CATHOLIC COLLEGE AT OXFORD—THE FIRST EIRENICON—VISITS TO FRENCH BISHOPS—RECEPTION OF THE EIRENICON IN ENGLAND—REPUBLICATION OF TRACT XC—SECOND VISIT TO FRENCH ECCLESIASTICS -1865.

Chapter V. NEWMAN’S REPLY TO FIRST EIRENICON—DEATH OF MR. KEBLE—ROMAN CATHOLIC COLLEGE AT OXFORD—CHOLERA IN BETHNAL GREEN—BISHOP FORBES’ EXPLANATION OF THE XXXIX ARTICLES—PROPOSED VATICAN COUNCIL—ANGLICAN ORDERS—THE SECOND EIRENICON—1866-1867.

Chapter VI. CORRESPONDENCE WITH DE BUCK—THE THIRD EIRENICON —THE VATICAN COUNCIL—DISAPPOINTED HOPES—1869-1870.

Chapter VII. OXFORD ELECTION OF 1865—KEBLE COLLEGE—SPEECH ON THE DAY OF ITS FOUNDATION—RELATIONS WITH MR. GLADSTONE—1865-1872

Chapter VIII. EARLY RELATION TO RITUAL—SPEECH AT MEETING OF ENGLISH CHURCH UNION IN 1866—EUCHARISTIC DOCTRINE—THE BENNETT CASE—OXFORD IN 1870—THE PRIVY COUNCIL JUDGMENTS IN THE PURCHAS AND BENNETT CASES -1866-1872

Chapter IX. THE ATHANASIAN CREED CONTROVERSY—1870-1873.

Chapter X. DECLARATION ON CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION

Chapter XI. ATTITUDE TOWARDS RITUAL DEVELOPMENT—1874

Chapter XII. OLD CATHOLICS—BONN CONFERENCE—FILIOQUE CLAUSE—LETTER TO DR. LIDDON—JEWISH INTERPRETATION OF THE FIFTY-THIRD Chapter OF ISAIAH—1875-1876.

Chapter XIII. GAUME’S MANUAL—LAMBETH CONFERENCE ON CONFESSION—PUSEY AND THE CHURCH ASSOCIATION—1877-1878.

Chapter XIV. RETIREMENT FROM THE HEBDOMADAL COUNCIL AND KEBLE COLLEGE COUNCIL—OPENING OF KEBLE COLLEGE CHAPEL—LETTER ON EDUCATION—PROPOSED PORTRAIT FOR THE HALL OF CHRIST CHURCH—1876-1879.

Chapter XV. LAST UNIVERSITY SERMONS—‘UNSCIENCE’—CORRESPONDENCE WITH PROFESSOR ROLLESTON—SERMON ON PROPHECY—LIDDON’S ëLIFE OF PUSEY—NEWMAN A CARDINAL—ASCOT HOSPITAL . 1878-1879.

Chapter XVI. DR. FARRAR’ S ‘ETERNAL HOPE’—PHILIP PUSEY’S DEATH—REPLY TO DR. FARRAR—1879-1881.

Chapter XVII. VARIOUS LETTERS ON CHURCH TROUBLES—PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH IN FRANCE—RITUALISM—UNLAW—DEATH OF DEAN STANLEY—IMPRISONMENT OF THE REV. S. F. GREEN—REVISED VERSION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT—DECEASED WIFE’S SISTER BILL—CARDINAL NEWMAN’S PORTRAIT—MOZLEY’S REMINISCENCES—LETTERS TO CHILDREN—LETTER WRITTEN ON HIS LAST BIRTHDAY—1880-1882.

Chapter XVIII. LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH—THE FUNERAL—THE MEMORIAL—1882.