Books : Selected Sermons, Prayers, and Devotions
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by: John Henry Newman
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 252.03
EAN: 9780375705519
ISBN: 0375705511
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: May 18, 1999
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: May 18, 1999
Sales Rank: 428992
Studio: Vintage
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Like other volumes in the Vintage Spiritual Classics series, John Henry Newman's Selected Sermons, Prayers, and Devotions, with a preface by Peter J. Gomes, is an accessible, portable, important introduction to the work of a major religious figure. Newman is one of the few orators of the Victorian era whose sermons still offer themselves to readers as fresh, focused, timely meditations. As Gomes notes in his introduction, 'Newman's prose has good bones.' Although this volume contains many of Newman's poems and meditations (many of which record the spiritual transformations wrought in him by a trip to Italy in 1832-33), most of the material collected here is sermons.
Newman was preacher to the University Church at Oxford, so his sermons address the 'big questions' that eternally vex undergraduates--Who is God? How am I to live? Who was Jesus? Newman's answers are straightforward yet sophisticated, and very often grounded in ethics. 'Outward acts, done on principle, create inward habits. I repeat, the separate acts of obedience to the will of God, good works as they are called, are of service to us, as gradually severing us from this world of sense, and impressing our hearts with a heavenly character,' he writes, in a sermon called 'Holiness Necessary for Future Blessedness.' Newman's preoccupation with ethics intensified after his conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1843, along with his growing conviction that life in this world is best understood as preparation for life in the next one. Gomes observes that, 'For Newman the only security in this world of tribulation is the unseen reality of the spiritual world, a world which (sic) is ruled by Christ, and for which Christ gave himself up for our redemption, which act is recapitulated in the sacramental life of the believer.' Newman's sermons, with their astringent ethical focus, were in part a reaction to the increasing secularism and materialism of the 19th century. (He lived from 1801-1890.) In this regard, our fin de siècle echoes his and makes a contemporary reader's attention to his sermons all the more urgent and rewarding. --Michael Joseph Gross
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Rating: - Intellectual Musings On Faith
John Henry Newman spent most of his long life making the principles of his Christian faith, first as an Anglican and later as a Roman Catholic Cardinal, clear and easily understandable to his audiences. A gifted writer and speaker, his lectures and sermons still resonate today. Although I am neither Catholic nor Anglican, his assurances of God's love and of sustaining faith have always attracted me. Recently, as I have suffered through the final illness and death of my mother, I have found in ... Read More
Rating: - Buy it. Read it. Lectio Divina.
Not many words from me. This volume of Newman is simply a "must read." Read and meditate. You'll send some as gifts. It IS that good.
Buy it.
Rating: - Inspiring and Instructive
Reverent of, obedient to, and profoundly in love with God-this is what Cardinal Newman is all about, and this is how he encourages us to live. His sermons may be instructive, admonishing, or inspirational, but are always enlightening, challenging, and reasoned. He has a remarkable ability to interpret God's Word in ways that hit home to everyday people. He conveys the sense of urgency with which we must turn from sin, yet understands our nature enough to know it takes time and enormous patience. ... Read More
Rating: - An Oasis In The World of Materialism And Knowledge
In this world of Knowledge and the propensity to believe in things are reasoned by Sciences, this book prods us, that the ultimate is still GOD. I for one, has fallen out a number of times, with an ardent attempt at things secular, despite my inner cravings for a deeper faith in God. This book sets out reminding me of my corporal life and all that surrounds me is nothing, but temporal. It is a rare find, given my recent yearning to return as a prodigal son and my inner inclination to detach all ... Read More
Rating: - An Oasis In The World of Materialism And Knowledge
In this world of Knowledge and the propensity to believe in things are reasoned by Sciences, this book prods us, that the ultimate is still GOD. I for one, has fallen out a number of times, with an ardent attempt at things secular, despite my inner cravings for a deeper faith in God. This book sets out reminding me of my corporal life and all that surrounds me is nothing, but temporal. It is a rare find, given my recent yearning to return as a prodigal son and my inner inclination to detach all ... Read More
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