John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion

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One of the most controversial religious figures of the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman (1801 1890) began his career as a priest in the Church of England but converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He became a cardinal in 1879.

Between 1833 and 1845 Newman, now best known for his autobiographical "Apologia Pro Vita Sua "and" The Idea of a University, "was the aggressive leader of the Tractarian Movement within Oxford University. Newman, along with John Keble, Richard Hurrell Froude, and E. B. Pusey, launched an uncompromising battle against the dominance of evangelicalism in early Victorian religious life. By 1845 Newman s radically outspoken views had earned him censure from Oxford authorities and sharp criticism from the English bishops.

Departing from previous interpretations, Turner portrays Newman as a disruptive and confused schismatic conducting a radical religious experiment. Turner demonstrates that Newman s passage to Rome largely resulted from family quarrels, thwarted university ambitions, the inability to control his followers, and his desire to live in a community of celibate males.

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Product Info

ISBN: 0300092512

ISBN-13: 9780300092516

Publisher: Yale University Press

Year: 2002-10-01

Type: New

Binding: Hardcover

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