The Final Step, 1 November 1843--6 October 1845, Vol. 10

Hardcover
from $0.00

Author: Francis J. McGrath

ISBN-10: 0199254591

ISBN-13: 9780199254590

Category: Christian Biography

John Henry Newman (1801-90) was brought up in the Church of England in the Evangelical tradition. An Oxford graduate and Fellow of Oriel College, he was appointed Vicar of St Mary's Oxford in 1828; from 1839 onwards he began to have doubts about the claims of the Anglican Church for Catholicity and in 1845 he was received into the Roman Catholic Church. He was made a Cardinal in 1879. His influence on both the restoration of Roman Catholicism in England and the advance of Catholic ideas in...

Search in google:

John Henry Newman (1801-90) was brought up in the Church of England in the Evangelical tradition. An Oxford graduate and Fellow of Oriel College, he was appointed Vicar of St Mary's Oxford in 1828; from 1839 onwards he began to have doubts about the claims of the Anglican Church for Catholicity and in 1845 he was received into the Roman Catholic Church. He was made a Cardinal in 1879. His influence on both the restoration of Roman Catholicism in England and the advance of Catholic ideas in the Church of England was profound. This key volume covers the final twenty-three months of Newman's Anglican years from November 1843 to 6 October 1845. It begins with Francis Rivington's refusal to publish Lives of the English Saints because of their Roman Catholic bias, and Newman's withdrawal from the editorship after the first two volumes of the series is published by another publishing house. The whole country is watching his every move. Rumours are rife and rampant. He is accused of being in the pay of the Pope. He is also accused of being a Jesuit or about to become one. But the attacks which really hit home are those accusing him of being a liar, a sceptic, and a traitor.In February 1845, the University of Oxford's Convocation deprives William George Ward of his BA and MA Oxford degrees; and the proposal to censure Newman's Tract 90 is vetoed by two University Proctors. Newman sets to work in earnest on his Essay on Development, the publication of which will be the signal of his intentions to become a Roman Catholic. It goes to the printers in the third week of September. From this point on, events move swiftly. It is only a matter of days before Newman is received into the Church of Rome by Father Dominic Barberi at Littlemore on 9 October 1845.

Preface     vAcknowledgements     ixAbbreviations to Volume X     xiiiIntroductory Note     xviiSummary of Events Covered by this Volume     xxxvThe Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman     1Review of Sermons, bearing on Subjects of the Day in the Christian Remembrancer, VII, 1844 (Jan.), 102-13     785'The Littlemore Lives of the English Saints'     793J. H. Newman's three contributions to the Lives of the English Saints     801James Bowling Mozley, 'Recent Proceedings at Oxford', Christian Remembrancer, IX, 1845 (Apr.), 517-71     815Introduction to An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, first edition     845Five pamphlets against the formal censure of Tract 90 and one pamphlet for the measure     857Newspaper articles following Newman's conversion to the Roman Catholic Church 9 October 1845     885Editorial on Newman's conversion in The Tablet, Saturday, 25 October 1845     905James Bowling Mozley, 'The recent Schism', Christian Remembrancer, XI, 1846 (Jan.), 167-218     909List of Letters by Correspondents     939Index of Persons and Places     959