They look to modern theologians and biblical scholars J. They rejoice in the preaching of the founders of Methodism, John Wesley and George Whitefield, as well as the hymns of John’s brother, Charles Wesley. Protestants look to Oxford men such as Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley, and Hugh Latimer. John Henry Newman, who said that “Oxford made us Catholics,” the great spiritual writer and preacher Ronald Knox, the pugnacious historian, travel writer, and poet Hilaire Belloc, and the brilliant and holy Australian Cardinal George Pell. Edmund Campion, as well as modern figures such as St. Its health is therefore a matter of concern for them as an indicator of how Christian faith fares in the modern west.Ĭatholics point to older alumni such as Blessed John Duns Scotus, St. For Catholics and Protestants, Oxford is a place of inspiration. Whatever the machinations of the various rankings (and this writer, who spent spring semester of his junior year as an associate student at Oxford’s Keble College in 1995, is not completely impartial), Oxford University is still the British university that continues to inspire a deep reverence among people around the world, especially American Christians. But in the Times Higher Education rankings, Oxford, the second-oldest university still operating in the world, ranks number one this year for the sixth year in a row.
News and World Report rankings, Oxford University ranks fifth globally, topping Cambridge and ranking first among both British and European universities. But of the making of ranking systems for universities, there is no end. Just released, they show the British university at second in the world, while Oxford, which was in the silver spot last year, has moved down to fourth. Cambridge University is bragging about the newest QS Quacquarelli Symonds world university rankings.
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