Saturday, October 9, 2010

John Henry, Cardinal Newman (1801-1890)


Writes with rigorous clarity and was considered best writer of prose in his day.

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

  • title translates as "A Defence of One's Life"
  • published as response to what he saw as an unwarranted attack on Roman Catholic doctrine by Charles Kingsley
  • details the reasoning behind his switch from Anglican faith to Roman Catholicism

The Idea of a University
  • addresses the idea of the university as "the high protecting power of all knowledge and science, of fact and principle, of inquiry and discovery of experiment and speculation"

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