Newman and Heresy: The Anglican Years

Newman and Heresy: The Anglican Years

by StephenThomas (Author)

Synopsis

This 1991 book describes the close relationship between the historical researches and the teeming world of early nineteenth-century controversy. The setting is Oxford between the 1820s and the 1840s, when Newman made his ambitious and doomed attempt to re-invent the 'catholicity' of the Church of England. The author shows that in Newman's battle against the Protestant wing of the Church of England, and the (to him) even more sinister 'liberals', he saw parallels with the struggle of the early Church against heresy. Newman's 'rediscovery' of ancient Patristic writers and heretics was thus part of a strategy to revive Catholicism within the Anglican Church. Dr Thomas shows how Newman's eventual conversion to Rome in 1845 may be understood as a change in his perception of heresy, and a realisation of the applicability of his own polemic to his Anglican self.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 350
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 28 Nov 1991

ISBN 10: 052139208X
ISBN 13: 9780521392082
Book Overview: This 1991 study links Newman's historical researches to the teeming world of early nineteenth-century controversy.

Media Reviews
' ... weightier and more concentrated ... carefully researched'. The Expository Times
...daunting study of Newman's Anglican writings on the early Christological heresies (Arianism, Sabellianism, etc.). Readers will be grateful for the definition of these many heresies in a glossary with which Thomas begins the book. The Catholic Historical Review