Oxford Pastorate

Oxford Pastorate

The Oxford Pastorate has provided chaplains to work alongside students in the University of Oxford, England, since it was founded in 1893 by evangelical Anglicans. Its objective is to encourage "true and lively faith" among Oxford's student population.[1]

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Evangelicalism

British historian Mark Smith cites the Oxford Pastorate as an example of thriving evangelicalism in early 20th century England. He contends that the Pastorate's success was due to it differing markedly from the stereotypes often associated with evangelicalism: "Far from being negative, exclusive and oppositional, it represented an evangelicalism which, while definite about its own position, was positive, inclusive and constructive in its emphasis."[2]

Links with C.S. Lewis

In 1941, Oxford Pastorate chaplain Stella Aldwinckle founded the Oxford Socratic Club, whose first president was C.S. Lewis.[3]

New focus on postgraduates

Since its inception in 1893, the main focus of the Pastorate had been on working with undergraduates. In 2008, the Pastorate's trustees decided to focus the ministry on Oxford's rapidly growing postgraduate student community.[4]

Chaplains

Award-winning British author and theologian Jonathan Brant[5] was retained in 2008 to serve as the new Graduate Pastorate Chaplain. He is assisted by two associate chaplains: Emilie Noteboom, and Christian Hofreiter, who is a Gosden graduate scholar in theology at Keble College.[6]

References

  1. ^ Thomson, G.I.F, The Oxford Pastorate. The First Half Century, London: The Canterbury Press, 1946.
  2. ^ Smith, M. 'A foundation of influence: The Oxford Pastorate and elite recruitment in early twentieth-century Anglican evangelicalism'. In Lovegrove, Deryck W. (ed.), The rise of the laity in evangelical Protestantism (London: Routledge, 2002), pages 202–214, quotation from page 210.
  3. ^ Thomson, G.I.F, The Oxford Pastorate. The First Half Century, London: The Canterbury Press, 1946, pages 144–145.
  4. ^ The Oxford Pastorate, The Pastorate in the Present: Graduate Ministry, http://www.oxfordpastorate.org/thepastorateinthepresentgraduateministry.htm
  5. ^ UK Christian Book Award Winners, 2008.
  6. ^ The Oxford Pastorate, Team, http://www.oxfordpastorate.org/team.htm

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