Testaments of Time
The Oxford Movement:
Cardinal Newman Focus
This Oxford immersive experience invites participants to follow in the footsteps of John Henry Newman, tracing his intellectual, pastoral, and personal journey through the places where the Oxford Movement was born and contested. Moving chronologically through the streets, churches, libraries, and colleges of Oxford, participants live, dine, and gather within the historic settings that shaped Newman’s preaching, tested his convictions, and formed his conscience. Rather than approaching Newman in abstraction, the programme encounters his world directly, where sermons preceded controversy, scholarship challenged inherited assumptions, and questions of authority demanded personal reckoning.
Join Cardinal Newman's successor, Canon Brian Mountford, the former Vicar of The University Church of St. Mary the Virgin in chronicling the Oxford Movement. Held at Keble College, founded to honour the preaching that ignited the Oxford Movement, this programme opens at the heart of the nineteenth-century renewal that reshaped Anglican theology, unsettled the University of Oxford, and altered the course of John Henry Newman’s life and legacy.
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The Methodist Movement
John Wesley Focus
This Oxford immersive experience invites participants to follow in the footsteps of John Wesley, tracing his formative years at Oxford where disciplined faith, rigorous study, and moral accountability shaped what would later become known as the Methodist movement. Moving through the colleges, churches, and streets that structured Wesley’s daily life, participants encounter the world of the Holy Club, where methodical devotion, pastoral care, and spiritual striving took root long before field preaching and global expansion. Rather than approaching Wesley as a later reformer in abstraction, the programme engages his Oxford context directly.
Held within Oxford’s historic colleges, this programme explores Wesley’s identity as an Anglican priest, tutor, and spiritual disciplinarian, examining how Oxford functioned not as the birthplace of Methodism as a denomination, but as the crucible of its method, structure, and moral seriousness. This experience offers a measured and thoughtful exploration of Wesley’s Oxford legacy, illuminating how a life shaped by order, accountability, and devotion ultimately helped transform the religious landscape of the English speaking world.
