Dr.M.Mazumdar

THE WORSHIP OF WEALTHY 1.Author G.K. CHESTERTONBorn: 29 May 1874, Kensington, London UK and died on14 June 1936, Beaconsfield, UK.He was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian and literary and art critic.He has been referred to as the Prince of Paradox. He was educated at St Paul’s School, later obtained degree of English Literature from the University College London. He chose to be a writer, as his tastes were literary and journalistic. As Journalist, he wrote essays on social criticism. The   essay ‘The Worship of the Wealthy’ is an excellent example of social criticism. The scintillating wit and paradoxical style sparkle with the glow of glamour and novelty make the common reader peep through his style in describing day to day incidents which are left unnoticed. 2. PLOT The Worship of the Wealthy is a fine essay by Gilbert Keith Chesterton which is also known for its charming wit and satirical vein. In this essay, he exposes the weakness and flaws in the society whi...

  The Oxford movement stimulated religious feelings. It was strong protest against the materialism and utilitarianism of the Victorian age. Oxford movement was basically a movement for religious reform, also known as Tractarian movement or Anglo Catholic Revival. It is called Oxford because some Oxford professors and scholars were the force at the back of it. The Oxford movement sprang mainly from the conditions that arose in England as a result of the demand of equal treatment by the non-conformists on the one hand and by the Roman Catholics on the other. This movement had nothing to do with politics. The aim of the Oxford movement was to restore the dignity, purity and zeal of church. It also aimed to protect the church from the encroachment of the state as threatened by the Whig reform Bill of 1832. Gates writes that Oxford movement was in its essence an attempt to reconstruct the English Church in harmony with the romantic (mediaeval) ideal. The Oxford movement stressed the abs...

Cardinal Newman was the pioneer of the Oxford or Tractarian movement. He was born in 1801 in city of London. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford where he studied widely. Newman was deeply committed to education to the spiritual as well as academic excellence. He described education as his time and he referred to education in a large sense of the world. He believed in liberal education which developed a whole human personality with intellectual excellence. Such human beings shine in every walk of life under all possible circumstances. The Idea of a University: Newman’s “The Idea of a university” is like most of his books, an occasional work. Actually it consists of two books, the discourses on the “Scope and Nature of University Education” (1852), and “Lecture and Essay on University subjects” (1859), a collection of lectures and articles written by Newman as the founding president of the university. “The Idea of a University” deals with the aim of university education. It also d...