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by: John Henry Newman
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 282.092
EAN: 9780486442136
ISBN: 0486442136
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: June 17, 2005
Publisher: Dover Publications
Sales Rank: 145296
Studio: Dover Publications
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An influential Church of England vicar, John Henry Newman stunned the Anglican community in 1843, when he joined the Roman Catholic Church. Protestant clergyman Charles Kingsley launched the most scathing attacks against Newman and this was Newman's brilliant response. A spiritual autobiography, Apologia Pro Vita Sua explores the very depths and nature of Christianity.
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Rating:  - Read slowly
Cardinal Newman's journey from Anglicanism to the Roman Catholic Church cannot be told better than in his own words. Yet, in his own words, one must read slowly to get the style firmly in mind. Once done, the light of his words shines poetically and clearly. He is a man of great ability and devotion and worthy of hearing no matter how one feels about Anglicanism or Catholicism. A very economical value, too, as books go for the value of his words.
Rating: - Cardinal Newman's classic defense of himself and his faith
This is an excellent defense of why one prominent Anglican intellectual and clergyman became a Catholic. Cardinal Newman gives a detailed account of his life through excerpting letters and other writings of his journey from the High-church Anglican Tractarian movement at Oxford, to a withdrawal from public life at a quiet parsonage, to final reception into the Catholic Church. Cardinal Newman gives his whole thought process and method of discovery that the fullness of the faith was only in the ... Read More
Rating: - Beautifully Written
It is interesting to note that John Henry Cardinal Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua is as well regarded for its literary value
as for its theological depth. Perhaps the greatest modern figure in Roman Catholic/Anglican relations, this is Cardinal Newman's personal account of his conversion to Catholicism.
A moving, beautifully written work.
Rating:  - Apologize For Nothing; Explain Everything
"Apologia Pro Vita Sua" is John Henry Cardinal Newman's explanation of his religious views and actions from 1833 to the time of his writing in 1864. In order to understand this work, it must be understood that "Apologia" is translated more precisely as an explanation, rather than as an apology. Newman apologizes for nothing. He explains everything.
John Henry Cardinal Newman was a major British religious figure of the Nineteenth Century. A prominent Anglican priest, leader of the ... Read More
Rating: - Apologize For Nothing; Explain Everything
"Apologia Pro Vita Sua" is John Henry Cardinal Newman's explanation of his religious views and actions from 1833 to the time of his writing in 1864. In order to understand this work, it must be understood that "Apologia" is translated more precisely as an explanation, rather than as an apology. Newman apologizes for nothing. He explains everything.
John Henry Cardinal Newman was a major British religious figure of the Nineteenth Century. A prominent Anglican priest, leader of the ... Read More
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