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Tractarianism

noun
1.
Principles of the founders of the Oxford movement as expounded in pamphlets called 'Tracts for the Times'.  Synonym: Puseyism.






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"Tractarianism" Quotes from Famous Books



... while it might possibly be of use to Roman Catholics, that ridicule and contempt were the only fit arms for the occasion. But when he came to consider the chief cause of the measure—that is, the great and growing evil of Tractarianism—of an established clergy becoming daily less efficient for the wants of their parishioners, and more at variance with the laity and with the spirit of the Church to which they outwardly belong; when the whole Protestant country showed its anger or fear; when such a man ...
— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell



Words linked to "Tractarianism" :   Christianity, Christian religion, Puseyism



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