The making of modern English theology : God and the academy at Oxford, 1833-1945 / Daniel Inman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-319) and index.

'Necessary knowledge' or 'inductive science'? : theology at Oxford, 1833-60 -- Theology as 'breakwater' against the tide of secularism, 1860-1882 -- Nonconformity and the Lux Mundi faculty, 1882-1914 -- An ecumenical theology : the makings of an English paradigm, 1918-45 -- Epilogue: From 'sacra theologia' to 'theology and religion'.

The Making of Modern English Theology is the first historical account of theology's modern institutional origins in the United Kingdom. It explores how Oxford theology, from the beginnings of the Tractarian movement until the end of the Second World War, both influenced and responded to the reform of the university. Neither becoming unbendingly confessional nor reduced to the secular study of religion, the Oxford faculty instead emerged as an important ecumenical body, rooted in the life and practice of the English churches, whilst still being located in the heart of a globally influential research university as a department of the humanities. This is an institutional history of reaction and radicalism, animosity and imagination, and explores the complex and shifting interactions between church, nation, and academy that have defined theological life in England since the early nineteenth century.