What was the Oxford Movement, and why did it matter so much in English church history?

In this short introduction, I look at the Oxford Movement as more than a nineteenth-century controversy. Because it was also an argument about authority, tradition, the Church of England, the sacraments, and what kind of church Anglicanism really was.

This movement helped reshape Anglican life, devotion, worship, and identity. It also opened up arguments that never really went away.

So this is a short introduction to what the Oxford Movement was, where it came from, and why it mattered.