ISBN : 9780199646937
Ian Ker presents a major collection of Newman's writings, celebrating his full achievements as both a universally significant religious thinker, and a major Victorian writer. An unsystematic thinker, Newman's ideas are scattered throughout his works - most of which were 'occasional' in their origin. This anthology provides a rich and varied sampling from his voluminous works, drawing our attention to some of the very finest passages in Newman's writings whether selected from his well-known publications or from occasional texts that are difficult to find in print. The selection is divided into five sections, which focus on his life as an educator, a philosopher, a preacher, a theologian, and a writer.
1. THE EDUCATOR
The Idea of a University
2. THE PHILOSOPHER
Oxford University Sermons
A Grammar of Assent
3. THE PREACHER
Parochial and Plain Sermons
4. THE THEOLOGIAN
The Arians of the Fourth Century
'On the Introduction of Rationalistic Principles into Revealed Religion'
Lectures on the Doctrine of Justification
Oxford University Sermons
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
'A Characteristic of the Popes. St Gregory the Great'
Apologia pro Vita Sua
A Grammar of Assent
A Letter to the Duke of Norfolk
5. THE WRITER
Preface to the Via Media
Apologia pro Vita Sua
Letters
'The Anglo-American Church'
'Private Judgment'
The Tamworth Reading Room
Lectures on the Difficulties of Anglicans
Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics