Endorsement for the New Oxford Movement

From Fr Simon Killwick SSC, the chair of the Catholic Group on General Synod:

I am delighted that a group of our younger clergy and ordinands have taken up Cardinal Kaspar’s call at this summer’s Lambeth Conference for a new Oxford Movement. Such a swift response from our younger generation is both exciting and inspiring to all who have been formed within the tradition of the Oxford Movement. The sense of the Church of England being part of ‘the one, holy catholic and apostolic Church’, and the sense of belonging to a wider Anglican Communion, itself but part of the Catholic Church, are important perspectives to which we need to recall the CofE and the Communion. Like our forebears in the Oxford Movement, we need to bring the perspective of the Church in the early centuries to bear on the Church of today, as Cardinal Kaspar has said, seeing our present concerns ‘more directly within the framework shaped by the Gospel and ancient common tradition in which our dialogue is grounded.

New Directions - September 2008

This month's edition of New Directions is now available on the Forward in Faith website or by clicking here.

Here are some highlights from the contents:

• Martin Lewes considers the nature of Anglican loyalty.
• Christina Rees offers a different perspective on the Synod vote.
• Paul Griffin on science, religion and Julian of Norwich.
• John Richardson on the final reflections from Lambeth '08.
• David Noble on lessons to be learned from the history of Britain's oversea territories.
  

In the news today

Until we get fully up and running, here are some links to blog posts supporting the New Oxford Movement and helping us gain shape:

What can we be? - Fr Lee Kenyon (Anglican Wanderings)
This 'new' Oxford Movement - Fr Ed Tomlinson
A New Oxford Movement: Newman or Keble? - Fr Jeffrey Steel

This list will be updated as required - please do let us know if you find something of interest and keep linking to this site.

By way of introduction

Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, at the 2008 Lambeth Conference, encouraged Anglicans to rediscover their apostolic heritage in a 'new Oxford Movement.' In 2008 we celebrate the 175th Anniversary of John Keble's Assize Sermon, given in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford. We also celebrate the life of the servant of God, John Henry Newman, and look forward to the announcement of his beatification by Pope Benedict XVI.

The example of the Oxford Movement fathers is one that still stirs the hearts, minds and wills of countless Christians. In response to Cardinal Kasper's encouraging words, this blog is offered as part of a wider initiative to renew an understanding of the catholic heritage that has been entrusted to us. This blog is not, by itself, The New Oxford Movement, it is a forum to aid its development, it is a place where discussion, debate and decisions will, it is hoped, contribute to the future of catholic Anglicanism.

Please pray for this initiative and all who seek to understand the catholic faith and communicate it to the world in which we live.

New Oxford Movement in the News

Here are some links about the New Oxford Movement which may make interesting reading:

• Cardinal Kasper's speech to the 2008 Lambeth Conference. Here.
• Scott Hahn's interview. Here.

Please suggest some further links and we'll update this page.

Watch this space...

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