From: Theological Studies | Date: September 1, 1995| Author: Ford, John T. | COPYRIGHT 1995 Theological Studies, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Richard Hurrell Froude (1803-36), one of Newman's closest friends, idiosyncratically labelled the parties in the Church of England at the time of the Oxford Movement as: "X's" = Evangelicals, "Y's" = Tractarians, and "Z's" = High Churchmen (20). Of these groups, the Tractarians have received the major share of scholarly attention during the past century and a half; indeed, some have claimed that the history of the Oxford Movement has been written largely from a Tractarian perspectiv...