WILLIAM GEORGE WARD AND THE OXFORD MOVEMENT
London: Macmillan & Co, 1889. 1st Edition. Burgundy cloth. Plates. xxix, 462p. Spine is sunfaded. Cover shows signs of shelf wear and some staining. Foxing present on page edges and occasionally throughout. Otherwise a clean and mostly tight book in good condition. Item #141035
Wilfrid Philip Ward (1856-1916) was an English essayist and biographer. He was born in 1856 at Old Hall, Ware, Hertfordshire to William George Ward. He attended St. Edmund's College in Ware, Hertfordshire; Ushaw College, in Durham, England; and Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Afterward, he was occupied at educational institutions in Great Britain. He lectured at Lowell Institute, Boston in 1915. He edited the Dublin Review, contributed to publications such as the Edinburgh Review, Quarterly Review, Contemporary Review. He died in 1916. Ward and his friend Baron Friedrich von Hügel have been described as "the two leading lay English Catholic thinkers of their generation". They were both intimately involved in what we now call "the Modernist crisis" in the Catholic Church during Pius X's pontificate. This book is his biographical work on his father, William George Ward, (21 March 1812 – 6 July 1882) an English theologian and mathematician. A Roman Catholic convert, his career illustrates the development of religious opinion at a time of crisis in the history of English religious thought. Ward left the Church of England in September 1845, and was followed by many others, including Cardinal Newman himself. After his reception into the Church of Rome, Ward devoted himself to ethics, metaphysics and moral philosophy. He wrote articles on free will, the philosophy of theism, on science, prayer and miracles for the Dublin Review. He also dealt with the condemnation of Pope Honorius I, carried on a controversial correspondence with John Stuart Mill, and took a leading part in the discussions of the Metaphysical Society, founded by James Knowles, of which Alfred Lord Tennyson, T H Huxley and James Martineau were also prominent members. He was an opponent of Liberal Catholicism and defender of papal authority. In 1851 he became professor of moral philosophy at St. Edmund's College, Ware, and the following year he was appointed to the chair of dogmatic theology. In 1863 he became editor of the Dublin Review (1863–1878). He supported the promulgation of the dogma of Papal Infallibility in 1870.
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