The Hale Lectures 1933 - The Social Implications Of The Oxford Movement (Paperback)

Text extracted from opening pages of book: THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE OXFORD MOVEMENT THE HALE LECTURES 193, \ THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE OXFORD MOVEMENT By WILLIAM GEORGE PECK Rector ofS. John Baptist, Hulme, Manchester Author of The Divine Society, ' ' *' Catholicism and Humanity, The Divine Revolution, etc. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK LONDON 1933 TO MAURICE B. K. ECKITT WITH GRATITUDE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Acknowledgment is here made of the courtesy of the fol lowing publishers who have granted permission for the use of selections taken from the books listed below. George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. - Jos Ortega y Gasset, The Re volt of the Masses. A. C. Black, Ltd. Rudolf Eucken, The Meaning and Value of Life. Harcourt, Brace & Co. Elie Hal vy, History of the English People, Vol. Ill; Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green & Co. J. H. Newman, Arians of the Fourth Century, Macmillan & Company, Ltd. R. W. Church, The Oxford Movement; B. F. Westcott, Gospel of the Resurrection. The Macmillan Company Karl Adam, The Spirit of Catholi cism; G. C. Binyon, The Christian Socialist Movement in England; R. W. Church, The Oxford Movement; Rudolf Eucken, The Meaning and Value of Life; B. F. Westcott, Gospel of the Resurrection. W. W. Norton & Company Jos Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses, Sheed & WardNicholas Berdyaev, The Russian Revolution, Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge G. C. Bin yon, The Christian Socialist Movement in England. Student Christian Movement Press, Ltd. V. A. Demant, This Unemployment. PREFACE This book is composed of the Hale Lectures delivered this year in the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. I cannot allow it to be published without anexpression of my sincere thanks to the Faculty and to the Hale Lecture Committee of the Board of Trustees for their invitation to me to undertake a most attractive task. To them belongs the credit for suggesting a theme so apposite and important as that which forms the sub ject of these pages. It is also a pleasure to acknowledge my appreciation of the many services of the Very Rev erend the Dean, Dr. Frederick C. Grant. If I have any qualifications for discussing the thesis of this book, they reside chiefly in the advantage of close contact with a group of Anglo-Catholic sociolo gists in England, from whose writings and conversa tion I have received more enlightenment and stimulus than I can repay. I am specially indebted to the Rev. V. A. Demant, B. Sc., B. Litt., for his invaluable analysis in his book, This Unemployment, and to the brilliant and searching discussions in Faith and Society, by Maurice B. Reckitt, MA. I must add that I have also ix Preface received much help and advice from my son, Mr. D. G. Peck, B. A., particularly with regard to passages of historical explanation and criticism. W G P MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, September, 1933. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE ix CHAPTER L THE BACKGROUND I II. THE SOCIAL GENIUS or THE OXFORD MOVEMENT 48 III. THE RIVAL HUMANISTS 99 IV. THE MATERIAL COLLAPSE OF SECULAR ISM 15 V. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE CHURCH 200 VI. THE SACRAMENTAL SANCTIONS 252 VII. THE CHURCH AND THE FUTURE OF SO CIETY 3 01 LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED 333 THE HALE LECTURES 339 INDEX 34 1 THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OP THE OXFORD MOVEMENT