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Apologia Pro Vita Sua

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780140433746 Author(s): John Henry Newman Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 1995 Publisher: Penguin Books Pages: 608 Series: Penguin Classics

Description: John Henry Newman, one of the towering figures of the early Victorian Church of England, caused shock and outrage in equal measure when he announced his espousal of Roman Catholicism in 1845. His Apologia, written nearly twenty years later in response to a scurrilous public attack by Charles Kingsley, is a superbly crafted reply to those who criticized his actions and questioned his motives, and traces his spiritual development since boyhood, his close involvement in the high church Tractarian Movement and his agonizing decision to reject the church he had been born into. Ostensibly an autobiography and a speech for the defence, the Apologia transcends self-justification to explore the very nature of Christianity and its place in the modern age.Ian Ker's fully annotated edition includes a bibliography, chronology, appendices and notes, as well as Newman's correspondence with Charles Kingsley, setting the controversy in both its theological and historical contexts.

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