Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

It ought to be further noticed that Dr. Pusey,
who succeeded to the leadership of the Oxford
Movement upon the defection of Newman to
Rome, he who pushed forward ritualism,
established nunneries and monasteries, and was
passionate in Romanizing, was also invited to sit
on the English New Testament Revision
Committee. The fact that he refused, does not in
any way lessen the mental attitude of sympathy
with Tractarianism which possessed the dominant
majority of that committee. And we are told that so
strong were the efforts on the Revision Committee
to revise different passages of the New Testament
in favor of Rome, that on one occasion the Dean of
Rochester remarked that it was time they raised a
cry of “No Popery.”[58]
The Oxford Movement had created great
discontent with existing theology and had
emphasized the apparent contradictions and
inconsistencies of the Bible. At the same time
textual criticism had cast discredit upon the
Received Text and the King James Version
translated from it. There had been enough agitation
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