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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 response 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.

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Apologia Pro Vita Sua - John Henry Newman Edited with an Introduction by Ian Ker

Abbreviations
Introduction
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Chronology

APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA

Appendices
Editor's Notes

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 29 September 1994
      ISBN-13 9780140433746
      978-0140433746
      ISBN-10 0140433740
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      Christianity Spiritualism Theology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 response 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.

      Table of Contents
      Apologia Pro Vita Sua - John Henry Newman Edited with an Introduction by Ian Ker

      Abbreviations
      Introduction
      Select Bibliography
      Chronology

      APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA

      Appendices
      Editor's Notes

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