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Unlikely Soul Mates: Robert Browning and St. John ...
By Joan Liguori Perillo | Apr 5, 2022 | History, Theology | 0
The Spanish Edition of Newman’s Letter to Pusey
By Rubén Peretó Rivas | Nov 24, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy, Theology | 0
Why Lingard Didn’t Like Newman
By Shaun Blanchard | Sep 24, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Theology | 0
A Collaborative Digitization Project between the N...
By Naomi Johnson | Sep 9, 2021 | New and Noteworthy, Newman Today | 0
“Telling Stories that Matter”: Reading...
By Elizabeth Huddleston | Mar 29, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy | 0
Newman’s Detractors … at NINS?
by Christopher Cimorelli | Jun 8, 2022 | History, New and Noteworthy, Newman Today | 0
It was all the more remarkable when I discovered a collection of “Newman detractors” on the premises, a collection indicating the conflict between Newman, the champion of Roman Catholicism in England, and mainly evangelical Free Church academics around the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.
Read MoreUnlikely Soul Mates: Robert Browning and St. John Henry Newman
by Joan Liguori Perillo | Apr 5, 2022 | History, Theology | 0
Despite their differences, and although Newman and Browning never met, they shared similar life experiences, and literary techniques, and both were concerned with the justification of Christianity, as well as the struggle between faith and doubt. Another parallel between these writers concerns their poetic interests.
Read MoreThe Spanish Edition of Newman’s Letter to Pusey
by Rubén Peretó Rivas | Nov 24, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy, Theology | 0
Newman’s influence is not relegated to the English-speaking world only; rather, it can be seen in the Spanish-speaking world as well.
Read MoreWhy Lingard Didn’t Like Newman
by Shaun Blanchard | Sep 24, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Theology | 0
Lingard remarked upon Newman’s career several times in his correspondence, usually with a mixture of suspicion and curiosity.
Read MoreA Collaborative Digitization Project between the National Institute of Newman Studies, Pittsburgh and the Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives, England
by Naomi Johnson | Sep 9, 2021 | New and Noteworthy, Newman Today | 0
As an archivist, I was incredibly excited by the platform and conceptualization of access that NINS was creating, showing a forward-thinking vision that was almost unheard of at the time.
Read More“Telling Stories that Matter”: Reading Marvin O’Connell’s Memoirs
by Elizabeth Huddleston | Mar 29, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy | 0
The book, Telling Stories that Matter: Memoirs & Essays, is comprised of O’Connell’s late-in-life memoirs of how he became interested in the academic study of history, as well as some of his shorter essays and book reviews.
Read MoreBlessed Ignatius Spencer’s Correspondence with Saint John Henry Newman
by Elizabeth Huddleston | Mar 10, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy | 0
Just last month, on February 20th, Pope Francis declared that the nineteenth-century Passionist priest, Fr. Ignatius Spencer, would be known as the Venerable Ignatius Spencer.
Read MoreNewman in America: Correspondence with J. B. Purcell, Archbishop of Cincinnati
by Elizabeth Huddleston | Jan 19, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy | 0
In 1875 John Baptist Purcell wrote to Newman that some in the United States were opposed to a pamphlet he published in a Catholic Liverpool paper.
Read MoreFr. John Lingard (1771-1851): Between Enlightened Catholicism and the Newmanian Second Spring
by Shaun Blanchard | Jan 8, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Theology | 0
This essay will introduce readers to Lingard, one of the major intellectual lights of the English Catholic community when Newman joined it in 1845 at Littlemore.
Read More“Twelve Ways of Looking at a Saint”: Review of “A Human Harp of Many Chords”
by Austin Walker | Jul 15, 2020 | New and Noteworthy | 0
Recently, a friend and I realized over a beer that we did not know what a good confession looked like. We had seen good (and bad) Masses; we had witnessed the efficacious baptism and confirmation.
Read MoreNewman as Complex and Influential: A Review of Eamon Duffy’s “John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History”
by Elizabeth Huddleston | Feb 18, 2020 | History, New and Noteworthy | 0
Eamon Duffy’s recently published, John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History, provides a concise and well-articulated introduction to who Newman was and who Newman was perceived to be in scholarship.
Read MoreWindow into the Heart of a Saint: A Review of Michael Collins’s Newman: A Short Biography
by Elizabeth Huddleston | Jan 27, 2020 | History, New and Noteworthy | 0
Fr. Michael Collins, a priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin and graduate of University College of Dublin, which developed from John Henry Newman’s Catholic University, has composed an excellent short introduction to the life of John Henry Newman.
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