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For other uses of the term, please see Tract . A Tract, is a literary work, almost always Religious in nature. The notion of what constitutes a tract has changed over time. At the end of the Second Millennium , these meant small Pamphlets (left in public places), often used as a tool for Christian Evangelism . However, there have been times in history when the term implied Tome -like works. NOTABLE AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS
ETYMOLOGY The Oxford Movement is also known as ''Tractarianism'', after the publication in the 1830s and 1840s of a series of religious Essay s collectively called ''Tracts for the Times''. These tracts were written by a group of Church Of England Clergy including John Henry Newman , John Keble , Henry Edward Manning , and Edward Pusey . These tracts were in fact lengthy Theological discourses that sought to establish the continuity between the Church of England and the Patristic period of Church History . They had a vast influence on Anglo-Catholicism , but were far longer and more learned works than the name ''tract'' currently suggests. SEE ALSO
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