Intro James Tolhurst (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. The first eight of these 15 sermons were preached in 1856-7 at the Catholic University of Ireland, where Newman was the first Rector. The remaining sermons were in response to 'external circumstances' including the restoration of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, the Risorgimento in Italy and its repercussions on the papacy, and the deaths of Newman's friends, Dr Weedall and James Hope Scott.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Published in 1872, this volume brings together six literary articles: How to Accomplish It (1834); The Patristical Idea of Antichrist (1835); Holy Scripture in its Relation to the Catholic Creed (1838); The Tamworth Reading Room (1841), a response to a speech made by Sir Robert Peel at Tamworth, Staffordshire; Who's to Blame? (1855), a first venture into political theory; and An Internal Argument for Christianity (1864).…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Newman planned his Catholic sermons carefully, committed them to memory and delivered them, in the Catholic practice, 'without book'. The Sermon Notes are schemes for sermons on a great range of subjects from anti-Catholic prejudice to the power of prayer and 'the last times of the world'.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. 'More rhetorical than my former sermons', the Discourses  date from 1849 when, as a Catholic priest, Newman had arrived in Birmingham and the new church situated in 'a gloomy gin distillery'. In these sermons or talks to novices in the nearby Catholic community, Newman's themes include purity and love, grace, faith and doubt, and the glories of Mary.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 362p. A green cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Ex-library; original binding. Scuff on spine where label was removed; label and pasted-in jacket panels on endpapers. Stamp on title page. Text clean and binding tight. The Works of Cardinal John Henry Newman - Birmingham Oratory Millennium Edition Volume II. James Tolhurst, series editor. …