Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Riverside editions) - Softcover

Newman, J.H.C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395051096 ISBN 13: 9780395051092

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

This newly edited version of John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua sheds new light on Newman's celebrated account of his passage from the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church and repositions his narrative within the context of transformative religious journeys of other Victorian intellectuals. Frank M. Turner is the first historian of Victorian thought, religion, and culture to edit Newman's classic autobiographical narrative. Drawing on extensive research in contemporary printed materials and archives, Turner's Introduction reevaluates and challenges the historical adequacy of previous interpretations of Newman's life and of the Apologia itself. He further presents Newman's volume as a response to ultramontane assertions of papal authority in the 1860s.

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Review:

0;Professor Turner has written a very full and significant Introduction for this new edition of the "Apologia. "It will be a great addition to the scholarly literature on Newman.1;2;Robert Bruce Mullin, SPRL Professor of History, The General Theological Seminary -- Robert Bruce Mullin

"Frank Turner provides a genuinely new and exciting reading of Newman''s much-read Apolgia, juxtaposing the historical conditions of nineteenth-century England with Newman''s version of them."-George Levine, Rutgers University

"Professor Turner has written a very full and significant Introduction for this new edition of the Apologia. It will be a great addition to the scholarly literature on Newman."-Robert Bruce Mullin, SPRL Professor of History, The General Theological Seminary

"In his own life and for the Church, John Henry Newman navigated the narrows between change and tradition, freedom and dogma, conscience and authority. Such tensions split the world still. Newman''s masterpiece, as elegantly presented by Frank M. Turner, has never been more relevant."-James Carroll, author of House of War

About the Author:

Frank M. Turner is John Hay Whitney Professor of History and director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0395051096
• ISBN 13: 9780395051092
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Culler A. Dwight