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PUSEY, EDWARD BOUVERIE (1800-1882)
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See also:PUSEY, See also:EDWARD BOUVERIE (1800-1882) , See also:English divine, was See also:born at Pusey near See also:Oxford on the 22nd of See also:August 'Soo. His See also:father was See also: The revolt against See also:individualism had begun, and he was attracted to its See also:standard. By the end of 1833 he showed a disposition to make See also:common cause with those who had already begun to issue the Tracts for the Times. " He was not, however, fully associated in the See also:movement till 1835 and 1836, when he published his See also:tract on See also:baptism and started the Library of the Fathers" (Newman's Apologia, p. 136). He became a See also:close student of the fathers and of that school of See also:Anglican divines who had continued, or revived, in the 17th See also:century the See also:main traditions of pre-See also:Reformation teaching. A See also:sermon which he preached before the university in 1843, The See also:Holy See also:Eucharist a Comfort to the Penitent, so startled the authorities by the re-statement of doctrines which, though well known to ecclesiastical antiquaries, had faded from the common view, that by the exercise of an authority which, however legitimate, was almost obsolete, he was suspended for two years from the See also:function of See also:preaching. The immediate effect of his suspension was the See also:sale of 18,000 copies of the condemned sermon; its permanent effect was to make Pusey for the next See also:quarter of a century the most influential See also:person in the Anglican Church, for it was one of the causes which led Newman to sever himself from that communion. The movement, in the actual origination of which he had had no See also:share, came to See also:bear his name: it was popularly known as Puseyism (sometimes as Newmania) and its adherents as Puseyites. His activity, both public and private, as See also:leader of the movement was enormous. He was not only on the See also:stage but also behind the scenes of every important controversy, whether theological or academical. In the Gorham controversy of 185o, in the question of Oxford reform in 1854, in the See also:prosecution of some of the writers of Essays and Reviews, especially of See also:Benjamin See also:Jowett, in .1863, in the question as to the reform of the See also:marriage See also:laws from 1849 to the end of his See also:life, in the See also:Farrar controversy as to the meaning of See also:everlasting See also:punishment in 1877) he was always busy with articles, letters, See also:treatises and sermons. The occasions on which, in his turn, he preached before his university were all memorable; and some of the sermons were manifestoes which See also:mark distinct stages in the See also:history of the High Church party of which he was the leader. The practice of See also:confession in the Church of See also:England practically See also:dates from his two sermons on The Entire See also:Absolution of the Penitent, in 1846, in which the revival of high sacramental See also:doctrine is complemented by the advocacy of a revival of the See also:penitential See also:system which See also:medieval theologians had appended toit. The sermon on The Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, in 18J3, first formulated the doctrine See also:round which almost all the subsequent theology of his followers revolved, and which revolutionized the practices of Anglican See also:worship. Of his larger See also:works the most important are his two books on the Eucharist—The Doctrine of the Re Presence (1855) and The Real Presence ...the Doctrine of ty , English Church (1857) ; See also:Daniel the See also:Prophet in which he endeavours to maintain the traditional date of that See also:book; The See also:Minor Prophets, with Commentary, his See also:chief contribution to the study of which he was the See also:professor; and the Eirenicon, in which he endeavoured to find a basis of See also:union between the Church of England and the Church of See also:Rome. In private life Pusey's habits were See also:simple almost to austerity. He had few See also:personal See also:friends, and rarely mingled in See also:general society; though See also:bitter to opponents, he was See also:gentle to those who knew him, and his munificent charities gave him a warm place in the See also:hearts of many to whom he was personally unknown. In his domestic life he had some severe trials; his wife died, after eleven years of married life, in 1839; his only son, who was a See also:scholar like-minded with himself, who had shared many of his See also:literary labours, and who had edited an excellent edition of St See also:Cyril's commentary on the minor prophets, died in 188o, after many years of suffering. From that See also:time Pusey was seen by only a few persons. His strength gradually declined, and he died on the 16th of See also:September 1882, after a See also:short illness. He was buried at Oxford in the See also:cathedral of which he had been for fifty-four years a See also:canon. In his memory his friends See also:purchased his library, and bought for it a See also:house in Oxford, known as the Pusey House, which they endowed with sufficient funds to maintain three librarians, who were charged with the See also:duty of endeavouring to perpetuate in the university the memory of the principles which he taught. Pusey is chiefly remembered as the See also:eponymous representative of the earlier phase of a movement which carried with it no small part of the religious life of England in the latter See also:half of the 19th century. His own chief characteristic was an almost unbounded capacity for taking pains. His chief See also:influence was that of a preacher and a spiritual adviser. As a preacher he lacked all the See also:graces of See also:oratory, but compelled See also:attention by his searching and See also:practical earnestness. His See also:correspondence as a spiritual adviser was enormous; his deserved reputation for piety and for solidity of See also:character made him the chosen See also:confessor to whom large See also:numbers of men and See also:women unburdened their doubts and their sins. But if he be estimated apart from his position as the See also:head of a See also:great party, it must be considered that he was more a theological See also:antiquary than a theologian. Pusey in fact was See also:left behind by his followers even in his lifetime. His revival of the doctrine of the Real Presence, coinciding as it did with the revival of a See also:taste for medieval See also:art, naturally led to a revival of the pre-Reformation ceremonial of worship. With this revival of ceremonial Pusey had little sympathy: he at first protested against it (in a university sermon in 1859) ; and, though he came to defend those who were accused of breaking the See also:law in their practice of it, he did so on the See also:express ground that their practice was See also:alien to his own. But this revival of ceremonial in its various degrees became the chief See also:external characteristic of the new movement; and " Ritualist " thrust " Puseyite " aside as the designation of those who hold the doctrines for which he mainly contended. On the other See also:hand, the See also:pivot of his teaching was the See also:appeal to See also:primitive antiquity; and in this respect he helped to start inquiry which has since gone far beyond the materials which were open to one of his See also:generation. See J. See also:Rigg, Character and Life-Work of Dr Pusey (1883) ; B. W. See also:Savile, Dr Pusey, an Historic See also:Sketch, with Some See also:Account of the Oxford Movement (1883), and especially the Life by Canon See also:Liddon, completed by J. C. See also:Johnston and R. J. See also: Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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