John Henry Newman : a Biography.
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| Format: | Livre |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Oxford :
Clarendon Press,
©1988.
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| Résumé: | The first comprehensive biography of the great religious leader John Henry Newman (1801-90), this illuminating study draws on a number of published and unpublished sources to examine his extraordinarily varied life and career. Ker stresses the complexity of Newman's character and the range of his achievement as major prose writer, dominating religious leader who anticipated the Second Vatican Council and the modern ecumenical movement, and universal Christian thinker, whose significance transcends his culture and time. Oxford; the Movement; the via media; doubts; crisis; development; from Oxford to Rome; controversy and satire; the idea of a university; the Catholic University of Ireland; oratory and university; the idea of the laity; the years of silence; apologia; return to Oxford?; the justification of religious belief; papal infallibility; Oxford and Rome again. |
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| Description matérielle: | xiii, 762 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliographie: | Inclui bibliografia. |
| ISBN: | 0198264518 9780198264514 |