Best remembered today alongside John Henry Newman as a leader of the Tractarian Movement, this conference will evaluate Dr Pusey’s wider contribution to the intellectual life of the University and the Church. We will consider his role as Regius Professor of Hebrew (1828-1882), his Biblical commentaries, and his expertise as a Semitic philologist. His engagement with both British and German Biblical criticism, and as theologian of Sacred Scripture, will also be treated. This will invite us to reassess the significance and contemporary relevance of Pusey’s work for twenty-first century Biblical Studies, Hermeneutics, and Theology.
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Papers will include: ​​

Joshua Bennett (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford) on ‘Pusey and the German Critics’.​

Brian Douglas (Charles Sturt University) on ‘Pusey, Scripture and Epistemology’.​

Aaron Hornkohl (Girton College, Cambridge) on 'Foreign Influence on the Language of Jonah: Pusey and Modern Scholarship'.​

Toby Karlowicz (Diocese of Quincy) on 'Window to a distant land: Pusey's biblical scholarship as the source and framework of his theology'.​

Timothy Larsen (Wheaton College) on ‘Pusey’s The Minor Prophets and the Devotional Reading of Holy Scripture’.

George Westhaver (Pusey House, Oxford) on ‘Typology and Transformation’.

​Tickets

£20 full rate / £10 for students and the unwaged, are available HERE

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This conference is part of a series of events celebrating the 140th anniversary of Pusey House, and its mission to the University of Oxford and the Church of England.

Public Lecture

The conference will be preceded by a public lecture by Prof Timothy Larsen at 4pm on the afternoon of Wednesday 13th November: ‘Pusey and the Tractarian Commitment to the Centrality of Scripture’.

The Tractarians inaugurated a significant and enduring Catholic revival in the Church of England. Because Protestantism emphasises biblical authority, scholars of the Oxford Movement have often focused on other sources of authority to which the founders of the Catholic revival were committed such as the Church, tradition, and the early fathers. Such an approach, however, can create a false dichotomy. This lecture will uncover how deeply and tenaciously the Tractarians emphasised the authority and centrality of Holy Scripture, with a special emphasis on the life, work, and ministry of E. B. Pusey.