Edward Bouverie Pusey

Edward Bouverie Pusey ( pron. pjuhsi ) ( born August 22, 1800 Pusey, † September 16, 1882 in Oxford) was an English theologian and founder of a decided catholicizing direction in the English High Church, named him after the Puseyism ( Anglo Catholicism / Oxford Movement ).

Life

Pusey in 1828 Canon of Christ Church College and Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University. Dissatisfied with the rigidity of the English High Church, Pusey was on a journey through Germany to German Protestantism, even in its pietistic expression, come close. With August Tholuck he was in correspondence. The external cause for the emergence of the Anglo- Catholic movement in 1833 a meeting of several members of the University of Oxford, against the attempt by the Whigs had " liberalization of the ( Anglican ) Church," the goal of the organization of the resistance.

With like-minded people, such as Isaac Williams (1802-1865), Richard Hurrell Froude (1803-1836), William Palmer, John William Bowden, John Henry Newman, William George Ward, Arthur Philip Perceval, John Keble, Pusey was the so-called since 1833. " Tracts for the times" out ( " Contemporary treatises "), which gradually abhandelten the whole area of theology and an increasing number of Catholic doctrine approached, although they demanded only a renewal of the Anglican Church by the return to the Church Fathers. It appeared 90 Tracts.

The followers of Pusey therefore were also called Tractarians ( Tractarians ) and the Puseyism was Tractarian controversy (the tractarian controversy, tractarianism ) called. 1841 Continuation of the tracts was prohibited by the government and Pusey himself received in 1843 from the so-called Board of heresy, a kind of inquisition, for two years preaching ban. His views were close mainly of Catholic doctrine. He demanded the validity of the tradition of succession, the apostolic succession of bishops and priests, the restoration of the Mass, the reintroduction of penance, fasting, and auricular confession. Concerning the Lord's Supper, he taught at least half Catholic (or Lutheran) a real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The Thirty-nine Articles, he wanted to be understood and completed in the early Christian sense. Pusey found especially among the students at Oxford and many of as outgoing younger clergy trailer.

This led to the split, especially as a result of the conviction of a book by William George Ward from the " ideal of the Church," in which the latter a " damnable, pestilential essential heresy " Protestant core set of justification by faith was called, by the University of Oxford. After Oakley, Ward, Wingfield and Newman had converted to the Catholic Church, followed by several hundred English clergyman, including Henry Edward Manning, who later became Catholic archbishop and cardinal. Pusey himself remained in the Church of England and died on 16 September 1882.

Over time, the Puseyism was a form of so-called ritualism (High Church movement ) among the clergy; the cult was the Roman sometimes taken so similar that he was outwardly nearly indistinguishable ( invocation of saints and angels, Marian cult, belief in purgatory, masses for the dead, last rites, knee flexion, incense, burning lights, elevation of the Host, etc. ). Pope Pius IX. introduced in 1850, the Catholic hierarchy in England restores, which in turn led to a rejection of catholicizing rites on Anglicans.

On the continent Pusey found efforts in his time little consideration. Today, however, we see him as a pioneer of the Ecumenical Movement, and his theology is scientifically recognized.