Apologia Pro Vita Sua

by Newman, John; Ker, Ian; Ker, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780140433746
• ISBN10: 0140433740
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

"This newly edited version of John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua sheds new light on Newman's celebrated account of his passage from the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church and repositions his narrative within the context of transformative religious journeys of other Victorian intellectuals. Frank M. Turner is the first historian of Victorian thought, religion, and culture to edit Newman's classic autobiographical narrative. Drawing on extensive research in contemporary printed materials and archives, Turner's Introduction reevaluates and challenges the historical adequacy of previous interpretations of Newman's life and of the Apologia itself. He further presents Newman's volume as a response to ultramontane assertions of papal authority in the 1860s."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Frank M. Turner is John Hay Whitney Professor of History and director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	p. vii
Editor's Introduction: The Newman of the Apologia and the Newman of History	p. 1
Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Being a History of His Religious Opinions
Preface	p. 119
History of My Religious Opinions to the Year 1833	p. 131
History of My Religious Opinions from 1833 to 1839	p. 163
History of My Religious Opinions from 1839 to 1841	p. 208
History of My Religious Opinions from 1841 to 1845	p. 252
Position of My Mind since 1845	p. 320
Editor's Preface to Newman's Notes	p. 354
On page 144. Liberalism	p. 359
On page 152. Ecclesiastical Miracles	p. 370
On page 257. Sermon on Wisdom and Innocence	p. 379
On page 301. Series of Saints' Lives of 1843-4	p. 389
On page 312. The Anglican Church	p. 408
On page 343. The Economy	p. 412
On page 350. Lying and Equivocation	p. 416
Editor's Preface to Newman's Supplemental Matter	p. 427
Supplemental Matter	p. 429
Letters and Papers of the Author Used in the Course of This Work	p. 429
List of the Author's Publications	p. 431
Letter of Approbation and Encouragement from the Bishop of the Diocese of Birmingham, Dr. Ullathorne	p. 433
Letters of Approbation and Encouragement from Clergy and Laity	p. 436
Editor's Appendix: Six Sermons	p. 445
Obedience to God the Way to Faith in Christ	p. 448
Religious Emotion	p. 457
The Religious Use of Excited Feelings	p. 464
Sudden Conversions	p. 471
Wisdom and Innocence	p. 478
The Parting of Friends	p. 487
Index	p. 497
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