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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Cardinal John Henry Newman is an intellectual icon to many Catholics, particularly those who gather on college campuses in the "Newman Centers" that bear the famous convert's name. Turner, a Yale University history professor, dispels some of the aura that has collected around Newman over the years by examining his earlier life and writings, which reveal an intense antipathy toward the evangelical Protestantism of the day and its influence on the Church of England. In this weighty work, Turner focuses largely on "Tracts for the Times," which Newman and his circle of colleagues began publishing in 1833 in an effort to challenge Anglicanism by seeking to recover parts of the ancient Catholic faith that had been lost. Later, however, their writings had the unintended effect of drawing many of the so-called "Tractarians" into the Roman Catholic Church. Turner suggests strongly that Newman's religious character and his own eventual conversion to Catholicism in 1845 were less the result of a natural progression toward Rome and more due to "contingency after contingency," including the departure of his own followers and his rejection by the Church of England. Indeed, he writes, the Newman found in his later spiritual autobiography, Apologia pro Vita Sua, is hardly the same Newman of the Tractarian period. Turner's work is unlikely to sway Newman devotees and those promoting his cause for sainthood, but it is absorbing nonetheless and certainly will attract readers with a bent for revisionism.
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From Library Journal
A complex leader in the early 19th-century Church of England and at Oxford, John Henry Newman (1801-90) converted to Catholicism in 1845, became a cardinal in 1879, and is currently being considered for sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church. Turner (history, Yale; editor, Newman's The Idea of a University) describes Newman's years with the Church of England and Oxford with persuasive, documented research. Departing from previous interpretations, he shows Newman to be a controversial leader of followers at odds with what he saw as strong evangelicalism in the Church of England. His extreme rhetoric left him rejected both at Oxford and by high churchmen. Lectures, sermons, and correspondence give insight into his private judgments, whereby he recognized the collapse of his cause, which led to his conversion to Roman Catholicism. Turner shows Newman to be a champion of the authority of religious tradition and points to Newman's own writing to illustrate the idea of a dynamic Christian truth. Newman's concept of "development"-that the Christian truth was incomplete and constantly changing-provides for a truth that substantially transforms itself over the ages. This provocative text is recommended for academic and large libraries.
George Westerlund, formerly with Providence P.L.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Cardinal John Henry Newman is an intellectual icon to many Catholics, particularly those who gather on college campuses in the "Newman Centers" that bear the famous convert's name. Turner, a Yale University history professor, dispels some of the aura that has collected around Newman over the years by examining his earlier life and writings, which reveal an intense antipathy toward the evangelical Protestantism of the day and its influence on the Church of England. In this weighty work, Turner focuses largely on "Tracts for the Times," which Newman and his circle of colleagues began publishing in 1833 in an effort to challenge Anglicanism by seeking to recover parts of the ancient Catholic faith that had been lost. Later, however, their writings had the unintended effect of drawing many of the so-called "Tractarians" into the Roman Catholic Church. Turner suggests strongly that Newman's religious character and his own eventual conversion to Catholicism in 1845 were less the result of a natural progression toward Rome and more due to "contingency after contingency," including the departure of his own followers and his rejection by the Church of England. Indeed, he writes, the Newman found in his later spiritual autobiography, Apologia pro Vita Sua, is hardly the same Newman of the Tractarian period. Turner's work is unlikely to sway Newman devotees and those promoting his cause for sainthood, but it is absorbing nonetheless and certainly will attract readers with a bent for revisionism.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
A complex leader in the early 19th-century Church of England and at Oxford, John Henry Newman (1801-90) converted to Catholicism in 1845, became a cardinal in 1879, and is currently being considered for sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church. Turner (history, Yale; editor, Newman's The Idea of a University) describes Newman's years with the Church of England and Oxford with persuasive, documented research. Departing from previous interpretations, he shows Newman to be a controversial leader of followers at odds with what he saw as strong evangelicalism in the Church of England. His extreme rhetoric left him rejected both at Oxford and by high churchmen. Lectures, sermons, and correspondence give insight into his private judgments, whereby he recognized the collapse of his cause, which led to his conversion to Roman Catholicism. Turner shows Newman to be a champion of the authority of religious tradition and points to Newman's own writing to illustrate the idea of a dynamic Christian truth. Newman's concept of "development"-that the Christian truth was incomplete and constantly changing-provides for a truth that substantially transforms itself over the ages. This provocative text is recommended for academic and large libraries.
George Westerlund, formerly with Providence P.L.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
See all Editorial Reviews
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