Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations (Works of Cardinal Newman: Birmingham Oratory Millennium Edition) - Hardcover

Cardinal Newman, John Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0268025576 ISBN 13: 9780268025571

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003

Synopsis

John Henry Newman, aged 48, now a Catholic priest, arrives in Birmingham in 1849 as the head of a religious community. Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations, "more rhetorical than my former sermons," examines Catholicism from the inside and deals with the popular prejudices which contemporaries entertained of it. We can see the same touch which he displayed in the pulpit of St. Mary's now used to explain the truths of the faith which he had embraced. But he allows his humor and irony to enable him to reach those "who do not narrow their belief to their experience." This edition reveals the context of the Discourses and contains a wealth of references.

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About the Authors

John Henry Newman, Cong. Orat., was an Anglican priest, poet and theologian and later a Catholic cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century.

James Tolhurst, a former priest of the Southwark archdiocese, is the Series Editor of the Millennium Edition. He lives in Chislehurst, Kent.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0268025576
• ISBN 13: 9780268025571
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272