Fyfield Books
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John Henry Newman (1801-1891), was, in many ways, the dominant figure in both the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in the 19th century. This book aims to give an overview of his life and work up to the point at which he became a Roman Catholic, on 9th October 1845. Newman was a prolific, subtle and influential writer, one of the great prose stylists of our day, whose sermons, tracts and polemical writings, together with a surprising talent for organisation, and inspiring others to faith and action, launched the Oxford Movement and all the controversies that attended it. Those twelve years between 1833 and 1845 were among the most important in the history of English Christianity, and they were shaped for the most part by the pen and energy of John Henry Newman, a rather quiet and shy Oxford Don, whose enduring legacy was to restore to the Church of England its neglected Catholic heritage. Newman the man and Newman the Christian are revealed in Newman the writer. This selection from the most productive pen of the 19th century is also an introduction to one of its most interesting minds.