Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert (The Works of Cardinal John Henry Newman Birmingham Oratory Millennium Edition, 11, Band 11) - Hardcover

Newman, John Henry Cardinal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0268036136 ISBN 13: 9780268036133

Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

It may seem surprising to discover that a Catholic cardinal was a novelist, and Newman advanced this as an obstacle to his own canonization: "Saints are not literary men," he wrote, "they do not love the classics, they do not write Tales." He was only fit "to black the saints' shoes-if Saint Philip uses blacking, in heaven."

The background to Loss and Gain was a controversial one. Newman wrote the book in part to provide a title for publication by James Burns, of the later celebrated firm of Burns and Oates, who had lost his stable of Anglican authors by converting in 1847 to Catholicism.

An understanding of the novel requires some knowledge of its Oxford background, of the university setting, which was compared in the fierceness of its loyalties by Newman's friend Richard Church to a Renaissance Italian city, implying an assassin with a stiletto round every corner. In short, there is a sense in which, in spite of its fictional character, Loss and Gain is a work of controversy, full of echoes of old battles over whether the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion and the Book of Common Prayer should be interpreted in a "Catholic" or a "Protestant" sense. It is a response, like Newman's other works, to a challenge, and so its hero, Charles Reding, as a student in Oxford, passes through the hands of the representatives of a number of Anglican parties and schools of theology before resolving his doubts in Rome.

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British theologian John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) was a leading figure in both the Church of England and, after his conversion, the Roman Catholic Church and was known as "The Father of the Second Vatican Council." His Parochial and Plain Sermons (1834-42) is considered the best collection of sermons in the English language. He is also the author of A Grammar of Assent (1870).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0268036136
• ISBN 13: 9780268036133
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 502
• Herausgeber: Gilley Sheridan
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