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Pusey, Oxfordshire>Pusey, Berkshire, England18821608df=yes}}| death_place = | education = Christ Church, OxfordOriel College, OxfordUniversity of GöttingenMaria Barker1839|end=d.}}Philip E. Pusey>Philip| father = Philip Bouverie-PuseyPhilip Pusey (brother)Jacob des Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone>Jacob des Bouverie (grandfather)Robert Sherard (grandfather)}}Edward Bouverie Pusey ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|p|j|uː|z|i}}; 22 August 1800{{snd}}16 September 1882) was an English Anglican cleric, for more than fifty years Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. He was one of the leading figures in the Oxford Movement, with interest in sacramental theology and typology.JOURNAL, Westhaver, George, A Fresh (Re-)Vision of E. B. Pusey's Sacramental Theology, Ecclesiology, 21 June 2023, 19, 2, 227–233, 10.1163/17455316-19020001,weblink 1744-1366,

Early years

He was born at Pusey House in the village of Pusey in Berkshire (now ceremonially a part of Oxfordshire). His father, Philip Bouverie-Pusey, who was born Philip Bouverie and died in 1828, was a younger son of Jacob des Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone; he adopted the name of Pusey on succeeding to the manorial estates there. His mother, Lady Lucy Pusey, the only daughter of Robert Sherard, 4th Earl of Harborough, was the widow of Sir Thomas Cave, 7th Baronet, MP before her marriage to his father in 1798. Among his siblings was older brother Philip Pusey and sister Charlotte married Richard Lynch Cotton.{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Pusey, Edward Bouverie|volume=22|pages=667–668}}ODNB, 6423, Peter B., Nockles, Cotton, Richard Lynch, Pusey attended the preparatory school of the Rev. Richard Roberts in Mitcham. He then attended Eton College, where he was taught by Thomas Carter, father of Thomas Thellusson Carter. For university admission he was tutored for a period by Edward Maltby.ODNB, 22910, Peter G., Cobb, Pusey, Edward Bouverie, ODNB, 32314, Valerie, Bonham, Carter, Thomas Thellusson, In 1819 Pusey became a commoner of Christ Church, a college at the University of Oxford, where Thomas Vowler Short was his tutor. He graduated in 1822 with a first.{{Fix|text=subject?}}

Fellow and professor

During 1823 Pusey was elected by competition to a fellowship at Oriel College, Oxford. John Henry Newman and John Keble were already there as fellows.Between 1825 and 1827, Pusey studied Oriental languages and German theology at the University of Göttingen. A claim that, during the 1820s, only two Oxford academics knew German, one being Edward Cardwell, was advanced by Henry Liddon; but was not well evidenced, given that Alexander Nicoll, ignored by Liddon, corresponded in German.BOOK, Denys P. Leighton, The Greenian Moment: T. H. Green, Religion and Political Argument in Victorian Britain,weblink 30 November 2015, Andrews UK Limited, 978-1-84540-875-6, 64 note 72, BOOK, M. G. Brock, Michael Brock, M. C. Curthoys, Nineteenth-century Oxford,weblink 1 November 1997, Clarendon Press, 978-0-19-951016-0, 38 note 205, In 1828 Pusey took holy orders, and he married soon afterwards. His opinions had been influenced by German trends in theology.BOOK, Gregory P. Elder, Chronic Vigour: Darwin, Anglicans, Catholics, and the Development of a Doctrine of Providential Evolution,weblink 1996, University Press of America, 978-0-7618-0242-6, 24, That year, also, the Duke of Wellington as Prime Minister appointed Pusey as Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford, with the associated canonry of Christ Church.

Oxford Movement

File:Frederick Temple (when Bishop of Exeter); Edward Bouverie Pusey; Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury) by Matt Somerville Morgan.jpg|thumb|left|1869 cartoon of Frederick Temple (when Bishop of Exeter) above; Pusey and Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury below, by Matt Somerville Morgan.]]By the end of 1833, Pusey began sympathising with the authors of the Tracts for the Times. He published Tract XVIII, on fasting, at the end of 1833, adding his initials (until then the tracts had been unsigned).BOOK, Brian Douglas, The Eucharistic Theology of Edward Bouverie Pusey: Sources, Context and Doctrine within the Oxford Movement and Beyond,weblink 24 July 2015, BRILL, 978-90-04-30459-8, 40, "He was not, however, fully associated with the movement till 1835 and 1836, when he published his tract on baptism and started the Library of the Fathers".Newman's Apologia, p. 136.When John Henry Newman quit the Church of England for the Roman Catholic church around 1841, Pusey became the main promoter of Oxfordianism, with better access to religious officials than John Keble with his rural parsonage. But Pusey himself was a widower, having lost his wife in 1839, and much affected by personal grief.BOOK, Chadwick, Owen, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church Part One 1829–1859, 1987, SCM Press, London, 0334024099, 197–8, Oxfordianism was known popularly as Puseyism and its adherents as Puseyites. Some occasions when Pusey preached at his university marked distinct stages for the High Church philosophy he promoted. The practice of confession in the Church of England practically dates from his two sermons on The Entire Absolution of the Penitent, during 1846, which both revived high sacramental doctrine and advocated revival of the penitential system which medieval theologians had appended to it. The 1853 sermon on The Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, first formulated the doctrine which became largely the basis for the theology of his devotees, and transformed the practices of Anglican worship.

Controversialist

Pusey studied the Church Fathers, and the Caroline Divines who revived traditions of pre-Reformation teaching. His sermon at the university during May 1843, The Holy Eucharist, a Comfort to the Penitent caused him to be suspended for two years from preaching. The condemned sermon soon sold 18,000 copies.In 1843 Pusey received the vows of Marian Hughes who was the first Anglican woman to make these since the reformation. She went on to be mother superior at an order she founded in Oxford.ODNB, Marian Hughes, 2004-09-23,weblink Matthew, H. C. G., 2023-06-13, Oxford, 10.1093/ref:odnb/39553, Harrison, B., Pusey was involved with theological and academic controversies, occupied with articles, letters, treatises and sermons. He was involved with the Gorham controversy of 1850, with the question of Oxford reform during 1854, with the prosecution of some of the writers of Essays and Reviews, especially of Benjamin Jowett, during 1863, and with the question as to the reform of the marriage laws from 1849 to the end of his life.By reviving the doctrine of the Real Presence, Pusey contributed to the increase of ritualism in the Church of England. Puseyite, became a term for Anglican Ritualists: "great in puerilities, when he bows and when he stands", and "half papist and half protestant".NEWS, WHAT IS A PUSEYITE?,weblink 15 July 2023, Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas.), 17 Mar 1853, He had little sympathy with ritualists, however, and protested that as part of a university sermon of 1859. He came to defend those who were accused of violating the law by their practice of ritual; but the Ritualists largely ignored the actual Puseyites.

Later life and legacy

(File:Edward Bouverie Pusey with his family at breakfast by Clara Pusey.jpg|thumb|Dr. Pusey with his family at breakfast, by Clara Pusey, c. 1856.)Pusey edited the Library of the Fathers, a series of translations of the work of the Church fathers. Among the translators was his contemporary at Christ Church, Charles Dodgson. He also befriended and assisted Dodgson's son "Lewis Carroll" when he came to Christ Church. When Dodgson Sr. mourned the death of his wife (Carroll's mother), Pusey wrote to him:Not a great orator, Pusey compelled attention by his earnestness. His major influence was as a preacher and spiritual adviser, for which his correspondence was enormous. In private life his habits were simple almost to austerity. He had few personal friends, and rarely mingled with general society; though harsh to opponents, he was gentle to those who knew him, and gave freely to charities. His main characteristic was a capacity for detailed work.File:Edward Bouverie Pusey, Vanity Fair, 1875-01-02.jpg|thumb|Vanity Fair caricature, 1875.]]From 1880 Pusey was seen by only a few persons. His strength gradually decreased, and he died on 16 September 1882, after a brief illness. He was buried at Oxford in the cathedral of which he had been for fifty-four years a canon. In his memory his friends purchased his library, and bought for it a house in Oxford, now Pusey House. It was endowed with funds for librarians, who were to perpetuate in the university Pusey's principles.Edward Bouverie Pusey is remembered in the Church of England with a commemoration on 16 September.WEB, The Calendar,weblink 2021-04-08, The Church of England, en,

Works

Pusey's first work, An Historical Enquiry into the Probable Causes of the Rationalist Character Lately Predominant in the Theology of Germany of 1828, was an answer to Hugh James Rose's Cambridge lectures on rationalist tendencies in German theology. Rose's State of Protestantism in Germany Described has been called "over-simplified and polemical", and Pusey had been encouraged by German friends to reply.BOOK, Don Cupitt, Sea of Faith,weblink 29 July 1988, Cambridge University Press, 978-0-521-34420-3, 91, Pusey showed sympathy with the Pietists; misunderstood, he was himself accused of having rationalist opinions. During 1830 he published a second part of the Historical Enquiry.Other major works by Pusey were:

• two books on the Eucharist, The Doctrine of the Real Presence (1855) and The Real Presence ... the Doctrine of the English Church (1857);
• Daniel the Prophet, supporting the traditional historical dating of the Book of Daniel;
• The Minor Prophets, with Commentary, on the Twelve Minor Prophets, his main contribution as Professor of Hebrew;
• the Eirenicon, an endeavour to find a basis of union between the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church;
• What is of Faith as to Everlasting Punishment: In Reply to Dr. Farrar's Challenge in His "Eternal Hope", 1879 (1881), in the controversy over everlasting punishment on Eternal Hope (1878) by Frederic William FarrarBOOK, Edward Bouverie Pusey, What is of Faith as to Everlasting Punishment: In Reply to Dr. Farrar's Challenge in His Ê»Eternal Hope,' 1879,weblink 1881, James Parker & Company, ODNB, 33088, Norman, Vance, Farrar, Frederic William,

Christus consolator (1883) was published after his death, edited by his godson and friend George Edward Jelf.ODNB, 34169, Peter, Davie, Jelf, George Edward, In addition to his original works, Pusey also published multiple translations as part of the Library of the Fathers series, including of the Confessions by St. Augustine.DNB, Pusey, Edward Bouverie, 47, Johnston, John Octavius, John Johnston (priest), 53-61, 1,

Family

Pusey married during 1828 Maria Catherine Barker (1801–1839), daughter of Raymond Barker of Fairford Park; they had a son and three daughters. His son, Philip Edward (1830–1880), edited an edition of Saint Cyril of Alexandria's commentary on the minor prophets.

See also

• Consubstantiation
• Friedrich Tholuck
• Frederick Field (contributor to the Bibliotheca Patrum)

References

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Further reading

• Strong, Rowan, and Carol Engelhardt Herringer, eds. Edward Bouverie Pusey and the Oxford Movement (Anthem Press; 2013) 164 pages; new essays by scholars
• Faught, C. Brad (2003). The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-271-02249-9}}.
• James Harrison Rigg, Character and Life-Work of Dr Pusey (1883)
• Bourchier Wrey Savile, Dr Pusey, an Historic Sketch, with Some Account of the Oxford Movement (1883)
• Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey by Henry Parry Liddon, completed by J. C. Johnston and R. J. Wilson (5 vols, 1893–1899),
• Newman's Apologia, and other literature of the Oxford Movement.
• Mark Chapman, "A Catholicism of the Word and a Catholicism of Devotion: Pusey, Newman and the first Eirenicon," Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte, 14,2, 2007, 167–190.
• Geck, Albrecht, From Modern-Orthodox Protestantism to Anglo-Catholicism: An Enquiry into the Probable Causes of the Revolution of Pusey's Theology, in: Rowan Strong/Carol Engelhardt Herringer (edd.), Edward Bouverie Pusey and the Oxford Movement, London/New York/New Delhi (Anthem Press) 2012, 49–66.
• Geck, Albrecht, "Pusey, Tholuck and the Oxford Movement," in: Stewart J. Brown/Peter B. Nockles (ed.), The Oxford Movement. Europe and the Wider World 1830–1930, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2012, 168–184.
• Geck, Albrecht (Hg.), Authorität und Glaube. Edward Bouverie Pusey und Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck im Briefwechsel (1825–1865). Teil 1–3: in: Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte 10 (2003), 253–317; 12 (2005), 89–155; 13 (2006), 41–124.
• Geck, Albrecht, "Edward Bouverie Pusey. Hochkirchliche Erweckung," in: Neuner, Peter/Wenz, Gunter (eds.), Theologen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Eine Einführung, Darmstadt 2002, 108–126.
• Geck, Albrecht, "Friendship in Faith. E.B. Pusey (1800–1882) und F.A.G. Tholuck (1799–1877) im Kampf gegen Rationalismus und Pantheismus – Schlaglichter auf eine englisch-deutsche Korrespondenz," Pietismus und Neuzeit, 27 (2001), 91–117.
• Geck, Albrecht, "The Concept of History in E.B. Pusey’s First Enquiry into German Theology and its German Background," Journal of Theological Studies, NS 38/2, 1987, 387–408.

External links

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• Pusey's Works from Project Canterbury
• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070211212655weblink">Pusey, Edward Bouverie in Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
• Pusey Family papers, 1836-1882 at Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology
• Pusey House
• What is of faith, as to everlasting punishment, in reply to Dr Farrar's challenge in his 'Eternal Hope' (1879) published 1880
• {{Gutenberg author |id=1157| name=Edward Bouverie Pusey}}
• {{Librivox author |id=11560}}
• {{Internet Archive author |sname=Edward Bouverie Pusey}}
• {{CathEncy|wstitle=Pusey and Puseyism}}

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