Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Softcover

Newman, John Henry

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ISBN 10: 1706236840 ISBN 13: 9781706236849

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

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John Henry Newman was an English theologian. Originally an academic at Oxford University and a priest in the Anglican Church, he wished to return Anglicanism to some of the beliefs and rituals of the Catholic Church. After converting to Roman Catholicism in 1845, he became a priest in his new church and in 1879 was created a cardinal. He was an able scholar and theologian, some say among the outstanding ones of the 19th century. A talented writer of both poetry and prose, he was a capable apologist for Catholicism and his own theological views. In 2019 the Catholic Church canonized him as a saint. Newman wrote Apologia Pro Vita Sua (“Apology for His Life”) in the early 1860s, and it was published as a book in 1865. A religious autobiography up to the time he converted to Catholicism and then with reflections on his beliefs over two decades afterwards, the work provides a forceful and sometimes trenchant argument in support of Newman’s view that Roman Catholicism is the only valid Christian faith. “There are but two alternatives,” he declared, “the way to Rome, and the way to Atheism.”

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