1. Oscott in Oxford—Lost Opportunity or Misguided Pipe Dream?
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John Sharp
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History ,biology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Attendance ,Geology ,Ocean Engineering ,biology.organism_classification ,Ambivalence ,Faith ,Secular clergy ,Law ,Dream ,Religious studies ,Bishops ,Water Science and Technology ,media_common - Abstract
The lifting of the ban on the attendance of Catholics at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in 1895, although intended primarily for laymen, was soon extended and led to the establishment of St. Edmund's House, Cambridge, for the secular (diocesan) clergy and the opening of houses of study at Oxford for the Jesuits (1896) and Benedictines (1897). Many bishops, however, remained ambivalent in their attitude to these developments, fearing that secular universities were a danger to the faith and morals of Catholics, and insisted that laymen should be obliged to attend extra lectures or conferences in which ‘Philosophy, History, and Religion shall be treated with such amplitude and solidity as to furnish effectual protection against false and erroneous teaching’.
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- 2010
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