Pusey, Edward Bouverie
Pusey, Edward Bouverie (1800–82). A leader of the Oxford movement, Pusey contributed to the series which led to the alternative description of ‘tractarians’. He also gave the movement another nickname by maintaining the tradition of the tractarians within the Church of England after Newman's secession to Roman catholicism. Pusey fought a rearguard action to prevent others following and his supporters, dedicated to restrained and respectable high churchmanship, became known as ‘Puseyites’. He refused to be drawn into the ritualism which for many was the natural consequence of the Oxford movement, but supported the revival of Anglican monastic life, particularly for women. He was unique in England in his deep knowledge of contemporary German theology and was also a prodigious scholar of Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew. A prime mover in making the writings of the church fathers more widely known, he was appointed regius professor of Hebrew in Oxford at the age of 28.
Judith Champ
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