John Henry Newman

[ebia]

Anyone read any of his work - I'm currently reading Loss and Gain.

 

[Memento Mori]

What do you think of it?

I really want to get my hands on An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, but I need a J-O-B so I can start buying books again.

 

[ebia]

Get yourself some kind of ebook reader and you can read out of copyright stuff very reasonably.

I'm glad I read it. It's a good read. Set in a rather different world of relationship (or not) between our communions it threw some light on what conversion would have been like in his day, and some challenges for me to think about that are still relevant.

 

[Memento Mori]

Get yourself some kind of ebook reader and you can read out of copyright stuff very reasonably.

I'm glad I read it. It's a good read. Set in a rather different world of relationship (or not) between our communions it threw some light on what conversion would have been like in his day, and some challenges for me to think about that are still relevant.

I bought a laptop with my grad money and I really wish I'd bought a Kindle instead.

How does it read as fiction? I had no idea he wrote any novels until I looked that up.

 

[ebia]

I'm not a big reader of fiction, but I found I didn't want to put it down. Ultimately there isn't a lot of suspense - you know which way Reding is going to go in the end - but there's plenty of character and interest along the way. Newman writes very well.

 

[Memento Mori]

Sweet. I'll add it to the list of eventuals. I did see his Apologia is available through the library system... now I'm in the mood the read some Newman.

 

[ebia]

Let me know what you choose/can borrow and when and I'll join you in reading the same if I can.

 

[Memento Mori]

Alrighty. I've got some Lewis to finish and I just picked up Theology and Sanity today, so I'll probably start Apologia in early April if you're still interested

 

[ebia]

Sounds good. Give me a nudge when you get there.

 

[Memento Mori]

I'm just finishing up exams and then I'll pick up Apologia next week.

 

[ebia]

Okay doak.

 

[Memento Mori]

Well, I'm really grateful for the extensive footnotes in my edition. I don't know a lot about the intellectual environment he lived in and that's a bit of a handicap, but it's very interesting so far. I want him to go into more detail about his early conviction that the pope is Antichrist. I was raised in a Protestant sect that was preoccupied with this. (It was actually at a seminar on the "harlot of Babylon" that I had my first conversion experience.) He says this thought had an effect on his imagination long after he formally abandoned it... so I'm looking forward to his thoughts on the papacy.

 

[mariafransisca11]

The works of John Henry Cardinal Newman are available online for your reading pleasure

http://www.newmanlibrary.org/pages/booklist.php
Newman Reader - Works