Apologia Pro Vita Sua
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Cardinal John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman, one of the towering figures of the early Victorian Church of England, caused shock and outrage in equal measure when he announced his espousal of Roman Catholicism in 1845.
John Henry Newman (1801-1890) described writing this account of his religious development as "one of the most terrible trials that I have had."
Having inspired and led the Oxford or Tractarian Movement before he abandoned Anglicanism for the Catholic Church, Newman regularly found himself the target of virulent anti-Catholic prejudice in Victorian England. The Apologia was his autobiographical response to a public attack by the novelist Charles Kingsley on his personal integrity. With it he not only convinced a suspicious public of the sincerity of his beliefs, but he also produced a literary masterpiece which has often been compared with St. Augustine's Confessions.
The Apologia, which ends with a brilliant defense of Catholicism, was a turning-point in English cultural history, successfully challenging the dominant tradition of 'no-Popery'. For Newman personally the work was a 'mental child-bearing' as he recounted the dramatic story of a conversion which rocked the Church of England to its foundations and which was to have profound consequences for the Roman Catholic Church.
561 pages. Paperback.
ISBN: 9780140433746
John Henry Newman, one of the towering figures of the early Victorian Church of England, caused shock and outrage in equal measure when he announced his espousal of Roman Catholicism in 1845.
John Henry Newman (1801-1890) described writing this account of his religious development as "one of the most terrible trials that I have had."
Having inspired and led the Oxford or Tractarian Movement before he abandoned Anglicanism for the Catholic Church, Newman regularly found himself the target of virulent anti-Catholic prejudice in Victorian England. The Apologia was his autobiographical response to a public attack by the novelist Charles Kingsley on his personal integrity. With it he not only convinced a suspicious public of the sincerity of his beliefs, but he also produced a literary masterpiece which has often been compared with St. Augustine's Confessions.
The Apologia, which ends with a brilliant defense of Catholicism, was a turning-point in English cultural history, successfully challenging the dominant tradition of 'no-Popery'. For Newman personally the work was a 'mental child-bearing' as he recounted the dramatic story of a conversion which rocked the Church of England to its foundations and which was to have profound consequences for the Roman Catholic Church.
561 pages. Paperback.
ISBN: 9780140433746
| Brand | Penguin Putnam |
|---|---|
| Author | John Henry Newman Edited with an Introduction by Ian Ker |
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