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John Henry Newman

Cardinal John Henry NewmanCardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890).

Table of Contents

  • 1 Ideas
  • 2 Biography
  • 3 Major Works of John Henry Newman
    • 3.1 Related:
  • 4 Videos
  • 5 Related Products
    • 5.1 Parochial and Plain Sermons
    • 5.2 John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History (Very Brief Histories)
    • 5.3 Everyday Meditations
    • 5.4 Apologia pro Vita Sua (Penguin Classics)
    • 5.5 Lead, Kindly Light: Meditations, Poems, and Prayers for the Journey (Volume 1) (Spirituality of St. John Henry Newman)
    • 5.6 Prayers, Verses and Devotions
    • 5.7 Waiting For Christ
    • 5.8 John Henry Newman: A Biography
    • 5.9 The Complete Works of John Henry Newman
    • 5.10 Tears of Christ

Ideas

– All things human develop and change in time, including the Church institution and doctrine.

– It is a collective responsibility to see that ideas develop rightly and in a continuous fashion.

– A university is a place of teaching universal knowledge to produce intelligent members of society by fostering cultivation of the mind and formation of the intellect.

– Religion and knowledge are not opposed to each other, not because they are irrelevant to one another but because they are indivisibly connected – religion forms part of the subject matter of knowledge.

– Certitude is ‘an assent, deliberate, unconditional and conscious, to a proposition as true’ – which does not mean we cannot ‘allow in the abstract that it is possible that we are wrong’ but there can be no ‘degree’ of certidute.

Biography

Newman was a leading priest in the Church of England whose conversion to Catholicism was a major event of the 1840s.

Newman was a popular speaker and a scholar at Oxford, making his conversion all the more welcome to Catholics and shocking to Anglicans.

Newman had been ordained as an Anglican priest in 1825; he was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1847, and in 1879 he was created a cardinal by Pope Leo XIII.

His Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864) is considered a classic among religious autobiographies.

Major Works of John Henry Newman

– Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845)
– Idea of a University (1858)
– Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864)
– Essay in Aid of a Grammer of Assent (1870)

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    Parochial and Plain Sermons

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    John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History (Very Brief Histories)

    John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History (Very Brief Histories)

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    Everyday Meditations

    Everyday Meditations

    • John Henry Newman (Author)
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    Apologia pro Vita Sua (Penguin Classics)

    Apologia pro Vita Sua (Penguin Classics)

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    Lead, Kindly Light: Meditations, Poems, and Prayers for the Journey (Volume 1) (Spirituality of St. John Henry Newman)

    Lead, Kindly Light: Meditations, Poems, and Prayers for the Journey (Volume 1) (Spirituality of St. John Henry Newman)

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    Prayers, Verses and Devotions

    Prayers, Verses and Devotions

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    Waiting For Christ

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    John Henry Newman: A Biography

    John Henry Newman: A Biography

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    The Complete Works of John Henry Newman

    The Complete Works of John Henry Newman

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    Tears of Christ

    Tears of Christ

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