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Pusey, Scripture and Epistemology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2025

Brian Douglas
Brian Douglas*
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Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Abstract

A paper exploring the epistemology of Edward Pusey’s work on Scripture.

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critique of reasonepistemologyexegesismediating stylePuseyScripture

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Journal of Anglican Studies , First View , pp. 1 - 9
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Journal of Anglican Studies Trust

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1 See H.C.G. Matthew, ‘Edward Bouverie Pusey: From Scholar to Tractarian’, The Journal of Theological Studies 32.1 (1981), p. 115.

2 Matthew, ‘Edward Bouverie Pusey’, 118.

3 Matthew, ‘Edward Bouverie Pusey’, 125.

4 Matthew, ‘Edward Bouverie Pusey’, 118.

5 David Brown, ‘Pusey as Consistent and Wise: Some Comparisons with Newman’, Anglican and Episcopal History 71 (2002), 3, 328–349; George Westhaver, The Living Body of the Lord: E.B. Pusey’s ‘Types and Prophecies of the Old Testament, PhD Thesis, Durham University, 2012. Available in Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6373, 33; Brian Douglas, The Eucharistic Theology of Edward Bouverie Pusey: Sources, Context and Doctrine within the Oxford Movement and Beyond (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015); and Tobias Karlowicz, The Sacramental Vision of Edward Bouverie Pusey (London: T&T Clark, 2022).

6 Matthew, ‘Edward Bouverie Pusey’, 115.

7 Edward Pusey, Daniel the Prophet: Nine Lectures delivered in the Divinity School of the University of Oxford (London: Parker, 1868).

8 Essays and Reviews (London: Parker, 1860).

9 Benjamin Jowett, ‘On the Interpretation of Scripture’, in Essays and Reviews (London: Parker, 1860), 330–433.

10 Pusey, Daniel the Prophet, iii.

11 Pusey, Daniel the Prophet, iv.

12 See Mark Pattison, ‘Tendencies of Religious Thought in England 1688–1750’, in Essays and Reviews (London: Parker, 1860), 257.

13 Edward Pusey, Lectures on Types and Prophecies, Unpublished manuscript in the Library of Pusey House, Oxford, 1836, 9. See also Brian Douglas, ‘Pusey’s “Lectures on Types and Prophecies of the Old Testament”: Implications for Eucharistic Theology’, International Journal of Systematic Theology 14 (2012), 2, 194–216.

14 Pusey, Daniel the Prophet, xiv.

15 See Westhaver, The Living Body of the Lord, 33.

16 Pusey, Daniel the Prophet, xxiv.

17 Pusey, Daniel the Prophet, xvi.

18 Pusey, Daniel the Prophet, xxiv.

19 Pusey, Lectures on Types and Prophecies, 2.

20 Westhaver, The Living Body of the Lord, 87.

21 Westhaver, The Living Body of the Lord, 88.

22 Leighton Frappell, ‘“Science” in the Service of Orthodoxy’, in Perry Butler (ed.) Pusey Rediscovered (London: SPCK, 1983), 1–33.

23 Frappell, ‘“Science” in the Service of Orthodoxy’, 12.

24 Frappell, ‘“Science” in the Service of Orthodoxy’, 12.

25 Westhaver, The Living Body of the Lord, 43, Note 59.

26 Westhaver, The Living Body of the Lord, 81.

27 Peter Nockles, ‘An Academic Counter-Revolution: Newman and Tractarian Oxford’s Idea of a University’, History of Universities 10 (1991), p. 161.

28 Nockles, ‘An Academic Counter-Revolution’, 163. The British Association was a symbol of a rationalizing and liberalizing spirit which the Tractarians rejected.

29 Edward Pusey, ‘The Spirit in which the researches of learning and science should be applied to the study of the Bible’, in Authorized Report of the Church Congress held at Norwich on the 3 rd , 4 th and 5 th October, 1865 (Norwich: Cundall and Miller, 1866), 181–198.

30 Pusey, ‘The Spirit in which the researches of learning and science should be applied to the study of the Bible’, 189.

31 Nockles, ‘An Academic Counter-Revolution’, 163.

32 Leighton Frappell, ‘Protestant and Catholic in the Oxford Fathers’, in John A. Moses (ed.) From Oxford to the Bush. Essays on Catholic Anglicanism in Australia (Adelaide: SPCKA, 1997), 263.

33 Frappell, ‘Protestant and Catholic in the Oxford Fathers’, 268.

34 Frappell, ‘Protestant and Catholic in the Oxford Fathers’, 269.

35 Frappell, ‘Protestant and Catholic in the Oxford Fathers’, 269.

36 William Franklin, ‘The Impact of Germany on the Anglican Catholic Revival in the Nineteenth Century’, Anglican and Episcopal History, LXI (1992), 4 December, 442.

37 Frappell, ‘“Science” in the Service of Orthodoxy’, 25.

38 Matthew, ‘Edward Bouverie Pusey’, p. 115 and Avis, Anglicanism and the Christian Church, 213.

39 Paul Avis, Anglicanism and the Christian Church, (London: T&T Clark, 2002), 233.

40 David Forrester, Young Doctor Pusey: A Study in Development (London: Mowbray, 1989), 50.

41 Jowett, ‘On the Interpretation of Scripture’, 371.

42 Pusey, Daniel the Prophet, vi.

43 Pusey, Daniel the Prophet, xii.

44 Matthew 24: 15 – ‘So when you see the desolating sacrilege standing in the holy place, as was spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand)’ and Mark 13: 14 – ‘But when you see the desolating sacrilege set up where it ought not to be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains’.

45 Pusey, Daniel the Prophet, viii.

46 Pusey, Daniel the Prophet, ix.

47 Pusey, Daniel the Prophet, x.

48 See John Goldingay, Daniel: World Biblical Commentary. Volume 30 (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1989) and John J. Collins, Daniel. A Commentary on the Book of Daniel (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993).

49 Goldingay, Daniel, xxxvi and xxxix.

50 Christopher Seitz, Figured Out: Typology and Providence in Christian Scripture (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001), 17.

51 Collins, Daniel, 26.

52 Seitz, Figured Out, 18.

53 Timothy Larsen, ‘E. B. Pusey and Holy Scripture’, Journal of Theological Studies 60 (2009), 2, 507.

54 Seitz, Figured Out, 19.

55 Robert Knetsch, A Darkened Reading: A Reception History of the Book of Isaiah in a Divided Church (Cambridge: James Clarke & Co, 2014), 130.

56 See Brian Douglas, ‘Pusey and Scripture: Dead End or Fertile Ground,’ New Blackfriars, 100.1096 (2020), pp. 698–715.

57 Westhaver, The Living Body of the Lord, 113.

58 Pusey, Theology of Germany, I, 164.

59 Pusey, Theology of Germany, I, 164.

60 Pusey, Lectures on Types and Prophecies, 6.

61 Pusey, Lectures on Types and Prophecies, 6.

62 Pusey, Lectures on Types and Prophecies, 6.

63 Pusey, Lectures on Types and Prophecies, 6.

64 Pusey, Lectures on Types and Prophecies, 6.

65 Westhaver, The Living Body of the Lord’, 124.

66 Pusey, Lectures on Types and Prophecies, 16.

67 Pusey, Theology of Germany, I, 31.

68 Pusey, Theology of Germany, I, 52, note 3.

69 Edward Pusey, ‘Emblematic Language’, Supplemental Material to the Lectures on Types and Prophecies. Loose papers held at Pusey House, Oxford.

70 Edward Pusey, The Spiritual Letters (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901) and Edward Pusey, Private Prayers (Henry Liddon, ed.) (London: Rivington, 1883) together with many of his sermons express an ecstatic joy in the knowledge and experience of God that was beyond any empirical investigation.