Newman, John Henry
NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY (1801–1890), Anglican and Roman Catholic controversialist and cardinal.
Life and Works
Newman was born in London. He was raised an Anglican, but in 1816, u...
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Newman, John Henry(1801–1890)
John Henry Newman, an English philosopher of religion and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was born in London, the son of a banker (later a brewer) who gave ...
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Newman, John Henry [addendum]
Since 1967, the publication of new primary source material has generated an expanding resource pool for secondary scholarship on Newman, particularly with the appearance ...
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The English cardinal and theologian John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was a leading figure in the Oxford movement. After his conversion to Rome, his qualities of mind and literary style won him a position...
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Newman's continuing influence depends primarily upon his spiritual autobiography and his ideal of a Christian humanist education. In his own day, he was famous for his hymn "Lead, Kindly Light" (1833)...
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John Henry Newman is known today primarily for his Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education (1852) and his spiritual autobiography Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864). In his own time his f...
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"Forty years ago," wrote Matthew Arnold in 1883, "when I was an undergraduate at Oxford, voices were in the air there which haunt my memory still." One of those voices was that of John Henry Newman pr...
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