John Newman: Selected Writings to 1845 (Fyfield Books) - Softcover

Newman, John Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857545451 ISBN 13: 9781857545456

Verlag: Fyfield Books, 2002

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Book by Newman John Henry

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This selection from the most productive Christian pen of the 19th century is also an introduction to one of its most compelling and troubled minds. John Henry Newman (1801-1891) was a dominant figure in both the Anglican and the Roman Catholic churches. His writings and his human presence in Oxford and elsewhere had an abiding impact on both communions and contribute still to the spirit of ecumenicism. This bok concentrates on Newman's life and work up to 9 October 1845, the mid-point of his life and the moment be became a Roman Catholic. He was a prolific and subtle writer, a great prose artist whose sermons, tracts and polemics, together with a talent for organization and an ability to inspire others to faith and action, launched the Oxford Movement and the controversies that still follow from it. The 12 years between 1833 and 1845 are among the most important for English Christianity, and they were shaped for the most part by the pen and energy of Newman, a rather shy, quiet Oxford don, whose enduring legacy was to restore to the Church of England its Catholic heritage. Newman was complex and sometimes contradictory as a man, and even in his most formal writings the man is present, responding to social and political pressures of church and state. A great communicator, with a need for self-disclosure, he is nonetheless revealed "and" concealed in his writings.

Biografía del autor:

John Adlard has taught in universities in Eastern and Western Europe. He was the author of a study of folklore in William Blake and edited a selection of Blake's poems. His anthology of the work of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, is published in Fyfield series as The Debt to Pleasure.

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• Verlag: Fyfield Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1857545451
• ISBN 13: 9781857545456
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 225