John Henry Newman is known today primarily for his Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education (1852) and his spiritual autobiography Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864). In his own time his fame rested on his hymns, sermons, and theological...

The English cardinal and theologian John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was a leading figure in the Oxford movement. After his conversion to Rome, his qualities of mind and literary style won him a position of respect among English intellectuals and...

"Forty years ago," wrote Matthew Arnold in 1883, "when I was an undergraduate at Oxford, voices were in the air there which haunt my memory still." One of those voices was that of John Henry Newman preaching from the pulpit of St. Mary's Church: "Who...

Newman, John Henry [addendum] Since 1967, the publication of new primary source material has generated an expanding resource pool for secondary scholarship on Newman, particularly with the appearance of 24 new volumes to complete the thirty-one volume...

Newman, John Henry(1801 s approach. Ward, Wilfrid. The Life of John Henry Cardinal Newman. 2 vols. New York: Longmans, Green, 1912. A reliable, standard life, with many letters and...

NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY (1801–1890), Anglican and Roman Catholic controversialist and cardinal. Newman was born in London. He was raised an Anglican, but in 1816, under evangelical influence, he underwent a profound religious experience that...

In an early sermon, "Personal Influence, the Means of Propagating the Truth," John Henry Newman (1801-1890) asks how revealed truth has made its way and held its ground in the world. He answers that its chief strength has not been in rational arguments,...

[The author argues that the relative neglect in recent biblical scholarship regarding Newman's understanding of Scripture during his Anglican years in favor of his late, controversial works has led to broad, sweeping statements of his thought during that period. Tracing a short history of...

In the following excerpt, originally published in 1951, Tillotson discusses Newman's influential 1829 essay, “Poetry with Reference to Aristotle's Poetics,” which is informed by John Henry Newman's Evangelical religious beliefs.

In the following essay, Pattison contrasts Newman's thought on the subjects of truth and belief with that of his fellow Victorians, and explores the thinker's attack on liberalism.

In the following essay, Buckton claims that the controversy between Newman and Charles Kingsley of the 1860s was a manifestation of Victorian hostility to Newman's religious conversion and perceived sexual ambiguity.