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The Tracts for the Times were a series of 90 theological publications, varying in length from a few pages to book-length, produced by members of the English Oxford Movement, an Anglo-Catholic revival group, from 1833 to 1841.
By the end of 1833, Pusey began sympathising with the authors of the Tracts for the Times. [2] He published Tract XVIII, on fasting, at the end of 1833, adding his initials (until then the tracts had been unsigned). [9] "He was not, however, fully associated with the movement till 1835 and 1836, when he published his tract on baptism and ...
The first page of Tract 90. Remarks on Certain Passages in the Thirty-Nine Articles, better known as Tract 90, was a theological pamphlet written by the English theologian and churchman John Henry Newman and published 25 January 1841. [1]
Quaker tract of 1820. A tract is a literary work and, in current usage, usually religious in nature. The notion of what constitutes a tract has changed over time. By the early part of the 21st century, a tract referred to a brief pamphlet used for religious and political purposes. Tracts are often either left for someone to find or handed out.
A New Christmas Tract, or the Right Way of Rejoicing at Christmas. Shewing the reasons we have for joy at the event of our Saviour's birth. In which also a description is given of the dreadful state the World was in before his coming; with some remarks suited to the times in which we live. 190 "Z." (Hannah More) A New Christmas Hymn. 191
More than half of the official series of tracts were written by Hannah More [5] A further six were perhaps written by her sister Sarah, others by evangelical friends such as the poet William Mason, the philanthropists and campaigners against slavery Zachary Macaulay, John Newton, and Henry Thornton, or else William Gilpin, the artist and writer on the picturesque.
The tracts sold 300,000 copies in March and April 1795, 700,000 by July 1795 and over two million by March 1796. [19] They urged the poor to rely on virtues of contentment, sobriety, humility, industry, reverence for the British Constitution, hatred of the French, and trust in God and the kindness of the gentry . [ 8 ]
Thomas Keble wrote four of the 'Tracts for the Times', viz. Nos. 12, 22, 43 and 84. The first three belong to the 'Richard Nelson' series, which was afterwards published in a separate form. He also wrote forty-eight of the 'Plain Sermons'; the publication of which in connection with the 'Tracts' was probably first suggested by him.