A discussion of movements to restore primitive Christianity would hardly be complete without mentioning the Oxford Movement of the early 1800s, even though it was actually a reforming movement rather than a restitutionist movement.
Edward Pusey, one of the main leaders of this movement, personally launched a fifty volume set of translations of the early Christian writers, calling it the Library of the Fathers. In fact, it’s largely through the influence of the Oxford Movement that affordable translations of the early Christian writers are now available in English. Because of the groundwork laid by the Oxford men, ordinary Christians today can discover for themselves what early Christianity was really like.
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