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Apologia pro Vita Sua Papeback -
by John Newman
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John Henry Newman's conversion to Roman Catholicism rocked the Church of England to its foundation and escalated the spread of virulent anti-catholicism in Victorian England. A rigorous examination of his own religious development, enlivened by touches of satire and sometimes invective, Apologia pro Vita Sua is a spiritual autobiography of great power.
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- Title Apologia pro Vita Sua
- Author John Newman
- Binding Papeback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 608
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Date pp. 608
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6671204
- ISBN 9780140433746 / 0140433740
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.1 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Theometrics: Academic
- Theometrics: Catholic
- Library of Congress subjects Catholic Church - Doctrines, Newman, John Henry
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95113807
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
John Henry Newman (1801-90) described writing this account of his religious development as 'one of the most terrible trials that I have had'. Having inspired and led the Oxford or Tractarian Movement before he abandoned Anglicanism for the Church of Rome, Newman regularly found himself the target of virulent anti-Catholic prejudice in Victorian England. The Apologia was his autobiographical response to a public attack by the novelist Charles Kingsley on his personal integrity. With it he not only convinced a suspicious public of the sincerity of his beliefs, but he also produced a literary masterpiece which has often been compared with St Augustine's Confessions. The Apologia, which ends with a brilliant defence of Catholicism, was a turning-point in English cultural history, successfully challenging the dominant tradition of 'no Popery'. For Newman personally the work was a 'mental child-bearing' as he recounted the dramatic story of a conversion which rocked the Church of England to its foundations and which was to have profound consequences for the Roman Catholic Church.