The Oxford Movement was the beginning of a re-formation of Anglican
theology, ministries, congregational and religious life revivals, and
ritualism, with its theological basis a retrieval of the patristic and medieval
eras, reconstructed around a deep christological incarnationalism. Does it
merit its description by Eamon Duffy as the single most significant force in
the formation of modern Anglicanism?
In Grace and Incarnation, Bruce D. Griffith and Jason R.
Radcliff explore this theological richness with unparalleled clarity. They
interrogate the potential link between Robert Isaac Wilberforce and Charles
Gore and the Liberal Catholics, and examine the interrelation between Tractarian
theology and the rise of what was to become 'modernism', with its new canons of
authentication. In doing so, they not only offer a mirror to the past, but shed
new light on what Anglicanism today.