Newman
by Owen Chadwick
This elegant, sympathetic and clear little book on John Henry Newman should be welcomed by all who are curious to understand one of the most outstanding of nineteenth-century men. Yet Professor Chadwick has written no mere hagiography and readily acknowledges the enclosed mind exhibited particularly by the later Newman secluded at the Birmingham Oratory and deprived of the intellectual stimulus of Oxford University within whose Anglican walls his philosophy and theology had earlier been shaped.
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