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Contents

Contents

Contents

Introduction

Biography: John Henry Newman (1801–1890)

1. FAMILY, EALING SCHOOL, “FIRST CONVERSION”

1.1. Newman's Doubts about Christianity

1.2. Newman's “First Conversion”

1.3. Newman's Call to Celibacy

1.4. “A Particular Providence as Revealed in the Gospel”

2. STUDENT AT TRINITY COLLEGE

2.1. “Love of Relations and Friends”

2.2. Student Drinking

2.3. Baccalaureate Examinations

3. FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE

3.1. “Jeremiah, a Lesson for the Disappointed”

3.2. Candidate for Oriel Fellowship

3.3. Election as Oriel Fellow

4. ANGLICAN DEACON AND PRIEST

4.1. Memorizing Scripture

4.2. Parish Visitation

4.3. Changing Theological Views

4.4. Newman's Father's Death

4.5. Reflections on Preaching

4.6. Visiting the Sick

4.7. “Acceptance of Religious Privileges Compulsory”

5. TUTOR OF ORIEL COLLEGE

5.1. Concern for Students’ Moral Dispositions

5.2. View of the Oriel Tutorship

5.3. Reforming the Tutorship

5.4. Tutorship Dispute in Retrospect

5.5. Tutorship Letters

6. VICAR OF SAINT MARY'S

6.1. “Religious Joy” (December 25, 1825)

6.2. “Consolations in Bereavement”

7. DISCOVERY OF THE PATRISTIC CHURCH

7.1. “The Greek Fathers”

7.2. “Religion a Weariness to the Natural Man”

8. MEDITERRANEAN PILGRIM

8.1. “Wanderings”

8.2. “The Immortality of the Soul”

8.3. “Lead, Kindly Light”

8.4. “Hope in God—Creator”

9. EARLY YEARS OF THE OXFORD MOVEMENT: 1833–1839

9.1. Tract Number One

9.2. “Christian Zeal”

9.3. “Liberalism”

10. CRISIS YEARS OF THE OXFORD MOVEMENT: 1839–1845

10.1. “Love, the One Thing Needful”

10.2. “The Visible Church”: Tract XC §4

10.3. “The Parting of Friends”

10.4. “To Live Is to Change”

10.5. “Athanasius and Ambrose”

11. ORATORIAN

11.1. “Farewell to Oxford”

11.2. St. Philip Neri

11.3. “Men not Angels, the Priests of the Gospel”

11.4. “The Second Spring”

12. EDUCATOR

12.1. “Intellect, Instrument of Religious Training”

12.2. “The Religion of the Pharisee, the Religion of Mankind”

12.3. Relationship between Teachers and Students

13. ADVOCATE FOR THE LAITY

13.1. Knowledge and the Laity

13.2. Sensus Fidelium

14. DEFENDER OF BELIEF

14.1. “Reflections” on Kingsley–Newman Correspondence

14.2. “Coming into Port after a Rough Sea”

14.3. “Faith and Doubt”

14.4. Three Brothers with Different Certitudes

15. CHAMPION OF CONSCIENCE

15.1. Vatican I: Description of Infallibility

15.2 “Conscience and the Pope” (Norfolk)

15.3 “Conscience and the Existence of God”

15.4. Interpretation of the “Vatican Definition”

15.5. Honorary Fellow of Trinity College

16. CARDINAL

16.1. Congratulatory Messages

16.2. Biglietto Speech

16.3. Roman Address to Cardinal Newman

16.4. Newman's Homecoming Address

17. BLESSED JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

17.1. Bicentennial of Newman's Birth: John Paul II

17.2. Beatification Homily: Benedict XVI

Appendix 1: John Henry Newman: A Brief Chronology

Appendix 2: Persons

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