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John Orens

Dr. John Orens is professor of history at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Sharing the Vision

In his first Tract on Christian Socialism, published in 1849, F.D. Maurice imagined a “person of respectability” asking, “Do you seriously believe that a...

JOURNEY INTO HOLINESS: PRAYING WITH THE TRACTARIANS (Part 2)

The first part of this essay explored the embodied character of grace in Tractarian spirituality. Yet we must recognize that it is precisely in...

JOURNEY INTO HOLINESS: PRAYING WITH THE TRACTARIANS (Part 1)

The liturgical debt Episcopalians owe the Tractarian pioneers of the Anglo-Catholic revival is incalculable. Although they themselves were not much interested in ceremony, almost...

Ritual and Revolution: Conrad Noel and the Catholic Crusade

In music, in dance, and in joyful worship Conrad Noel molded Thaxted into an image of the heavenly Jerusalem.