John Henry Newman (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ian Ker
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1801-1890
- Setting: Primarily Oxford and Birmingham, England
- Principal Characters: John Henry Newman, John Kenle, Richard Hurrell Froude, Henry Wilberforce, W G. Ward, Edward Pusey, John William Bowden, Pope Pius Ix, Pope Leo Xiii, Ambrose St. John, W. B. Ullathorne, Nicholas Wiseman, Henry Edward Manning, E W. Fabes
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Nineteenth century, Literature, Religion, England or English people, Catholics or Catholic Church, Priests, Counterculture
- Locales: Oxford, England, Birmingham, England
August 11, 1990, marks the centennial of John Henry Newman’s death; on February 21, 2001, the bicentennial of his birth will occur. Ian Ker’s immense new biography of this great Anglican and Roman Catholic will surely serve to honor and inform both occasions. So meticulous is Ker’s research and so detailed his portrait that it is hard to imagine anyone attempting a life of Newman for another generation. Indeed, one wonders if there will be anything left unsaid about Newman once Ker is finished. The Roman Catholic chaplain at the University of Oxford, Ker has produced or...
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