“A man's real reason for attachment to his own religious communion... is not any series of historical or philosophical arguments, nor anything merely beautiful in its system, or supernatural, but what it has done for him and others; his confidence in it as a means by which men may be brought nearer to God, and may become better and happier” (Sermons Bearing on Subjects of the Day; quoted by Poston 108)
“No considerate person will deny that there is much in the spirit of the times, and in the actual changes which the British Constitution has lately undergone, which makes it probable, or not improbable, that a material alteration will soon take place in the relations of the Church towards the State, to which it has been hitherto united.” Newman’s “Primitive Christianity” (1836)
General
- Newman's attitude toward sermons, the role of the clergy, and the limitations of language
- Evangelicalism
- Newman's Evolutionary View of the Bible
- Cardinal Newman and The Dream of Gerontius
The Anglican High Church, the Tractarians, and the Oxford Movement
- The Church of England
- The High Church (sitemap)
- The Tractarian Movement
- Newman and Pusey as Tractarian Leaders
- Newman's problems and miscalculations in Tract 90
- Differences between the Tractarians and Ecclesiologists
- Occasion and Character of the The Tract Movement (1894)
- Newman's attitude toward religious conversions
Roman Catholicism
- Roman Catholicism (sitemap)
- New Converts to Roman Catholicism
- Newman's vexed relationship with Cardinal Manning
Symbol and Image
- Newman's Use of the Pisgah Sight in "The Death of Moses"
- Pillar of Cloud and Fire
- Historical types
- Jeremiah and other prophets as types
- The Narrator’s Sympathetic Understanding of Pagan Characters in Newman’s Callista
Major influences
- St. Augustine's Confessions
- Thomas Scott's The Force of Truth
- Newman transfers the Apologia from an English Protestant tradition to a Catholic literary form
Bibliography
Newman, John Henry. Sermons bearing on Subjects of the Day. London: Longmans Green, 1902.
Poston, Lawrence. The Antagonist Principle: John Henry Newman and the Paradox of Personality. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Last modified 27 June 2018