One of the most controversial religious figures of the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman (1801 1890) began his career as a priest in the Church of England but converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He became a cardinal in 1879.
Between 1833 and 1845 Newman, now best known for his autobiographical "Apologia Pro Vita Sua "and" The Idea of a University, "was the aggressive leader of the Tractarian Movement within Oxford University. Newman, along with John Keble, Richard Hurrell Froude, and E. B. Pusey, launched an uncompromising battle against the dominance of evangelicalism in...
One of the most controversial religious figures of the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman (1801 1890) began his career as a priest in the Church...
