Who is a Christian?: Selections from Parochial and Plain Sermons - Softcover

Newman, Cardinal John Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871931885 ISBN 13: 9780871931887

Publisher: Dimension Books,U.S., 1985

Synopsis

John Henry Newman, Cong. Orat., (21 February 1801 - 11 August 1890) 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. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s.Originally an evangelical Oxford University academic and priest in the Church of England, Newman then became drawn to the high-church tradition of Anglicanism. He became known as a leader of, and an able polemicist for, the Oxford Movement, an influential and controversial grouping of Anglicans who wished to return to the Church of England many Catholic beliefs and liturgical rituals from before the English Reformation. In this the movement had some success. In 1845 Newman, joined by some but not all of his followers, officially left the Church of England and his teaching post at Oxford University and was received into the Catholic Church. He was quickly ordained as a priest and continued as an influential religious leader, based in Birmingham. In 1879, he was created a cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in recognition of his services to the cause of the Catholic Church in England. He was instrumental in the founding of the Catholic University of Ireland which evolved into University College Dublin, today the largest university in Ireland. Newman's beatification was officially proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI on 19 September 2010 during his visit to the United Kingdom. His canonisation is dependent on the documentation of additional miracles attributed to his intercession. Newman was also a literary figure of note: his major writings including the Tracts for the Times (1833-1841), his autobiography Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1865-1866), the Grammar of Assent (1870).

About this edition

• Publisher: Dimension Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0871931885
• ISBN 13: 9780871931887
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 468