Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

interpretation of Holy Writ belonged to the clergy.
Newman left Rome saying, “I have a work to do
for England.” He could not bring the Church of
England to accept the Council of Trent without
establishing those books of the Catholic Bible
which are rejected by Protestants and without
securing endorsement for those Catholic readings
of the accepted books which had been rejected by
the Reformers. Revision became the inevitable
outcome of the Oxford Movement.
That this was so understood by the participants
in Tractarianism, I will now quote from Mozley,
the brother-in-law of Cardinal Newman:
“The Oxford Movement, unforeseen by the
chief movers, and to some extent in spite of them,
has produced a generation of ecclesiologists,
ritualists, and religious poets. Whatever may be
said of its priestcraft, it has filled the land with
churchcrafts of all kinds. Has it not had some share
in the restoration of Biblical criticism and in the
revision of the Authorized Version?”[57]
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