The Spectacles of John Keble - presented by The Rt Rev'd Dr Geoffrey Rowell

 

Presented by The Rt Rev'd Dr Geoffrey Rowell, Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe   On 14 July 1833, a young Oxford don rose to the pulpit of the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford and preached a sermon that would come to mark the beginning of one of the most significant religious movements in English, and Anglican, church history - the so-called 'Oxford Movement'. This celebrated campaign by a group of Oxford dons has come to be associated with increased ritual in public worship and neo-Gothic architecture, but for John Keble, John Henry Newman, Edward Pusey and others at Oxford in the early nineteenth century, their efforts did not originate in concern for a religious aesthetic, but from a deeply held concern for the sustenance of the Christian's credal commitment to the 'catholic and apostolic Church' in an age of reform and revolution across Europe.   Dr Geoffrey Rowell has been the third Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe since 2001. For many years he was Chaplain and Fellow in Theology at Keble College, Oxford, and, from 1994 until 2001, was the Bishop of Basingstoke in the Diocese of Winchester. He was written widely on the Oxford Movement, and with Rowan Williams and Kenneth Stevenson was an editor of Love's Redeeming Work (Oxford University Press), an important compendium of Anglican spiritual writings from across the centuries.   On 10th May, the Bishop of Gibraltar brought the spectacles of this modern English 'saint', John Keble, to Deddington, and will help us to think about what it meant to be a Christian in post-revolutionary Europe.   Thursday, 10th May 2012 in Deddington Parish Church and on this website.

 

An introduction from The Rt Rev'd Dr Geoffrey Rowell.

Audio only of "The Spectacles of John Keble" - presented by The Rt Rev'd Dr Geoffrey Rowell.