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Index
Preface
Prologue
PART ONE
Chapter 1: Who is John Henry Newman?
2: Meeting Doctor Newman 13
3: Dreams and imagination 2
4: Fellow of Oriel
5: To the Mediterranean
6: The Oxford Movement 57
7: Parting of friends
8: How doctrine develops 8
PART TWO
Chapter 9: Rome at last
10: Oratory
11:
12: Tribulations, heresy and the faithful 138
13:
14:
15:
16: Papal infallibility
PART THREE
Chapter 17: Death of Ambrose St John
18: Last years and death
19: Connubium in death
20: Newman’s legacy
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes to the Chapters (and the Abbreviations used)
Index
CHAPTER 1
I write – I write again – I write a third time, in the course of six months – then I take the third
‘I used to wish the Arabian Tales were true’, Newman wrote when he was sixty- three years of age. ‘M
his shadow’.
An Oriel fellowship had acquired extraordinary status in the early decades of the nineteenth century
‘much of that mischievous fanaticism’ that ‘at present abounds from the vanity of men, who think tha
collection by Newman clearly allude to his friendship with Hurrell Froude who had died before public
. As Ward put it, ‘in subscribing the [39] articles I renounce no one Roman doctrine’.
But he declares that anything beyond this distracts and terrifies his mind, because he is ‘subject t
feel his loss to this day. But the Father’s bereavement is of a special kind, and his sorrow is ever
… without reference to success or failure other than personal.’
He goes on to reflect on his own ‘hair shirt’. ‘For myself, now I am deeply deficient in that higher
he writes. The ghost points back to his original introduction, and his intention to dismiss the ‘gho
In Newman’s view, moreover, the Anglican Church lacked conscious, intelligent life: ‘Nor can it in c
Oratorian summer house at Rednal to enjoy some cool air. The following morn- ing, after Mass, Newman
Cardinal Newman is dead, and we lose in him not only one of the very greatest masters of English sty
construction’, and ‘revealed truth’.
Abbotsford (Scotland), 120
Abingdon (Oxfordshire),
77, 172
Achilli, Giacinto,
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