SOURCE: "The Anglican Responce to Newman's Conversion," in Faith & Reason: The Journal of Christendom College, Vol. III, No. 2, Summer, 1977, pp. 17-33.

In the essay that follows, Griffin claims that Newman 's 1845 conversion to Catholicism generated a series of attacks on and misrepresentations of his thought by Anglican scholars, which remain dominant in some critical interpretations.

I have only one regret about not speaking the other day. I wish I had said something about people not going to the Oratory, &c., with itching ears; for I observed that when Mr. Darling spoke of it there was rather a titter about the room, and I think it is the worst sign of the day.

(John Keble to Edward Pusey, October 18, 1850)

Historians of the Oxford Movement in its post 1845 period have failed to notice any changes in the Movement in the years after Newman's conversion.¹ One slight modification to the idea...