
Category: Newman Today
NINS’s Expanding Collections
By Christopher Cimorelli | Feb 23, 2022 | New and Noteworthy, Newman Today | 0
Pusey House, Oxford Joins NINS Digital Collections
By Jessica Woodward | Dec 8, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy, Newman Today | 0
A Collaborative Digitization Project between the N...
By Naomi Johnson | Sep 9, 2021 | New and Noteworthy, Newman Today | 0
Reading Louis Bouyer with Keith Lemna: A Review of...
By Laura Eloe | Aug 18, 2021 | Ecclesiology, New and Noteworthy, Newman Today, Spirituality | 0
A Pilgrimage with Newman: Reading Patricia O’...
By Gerriet Suiter | Jul 1, 2021 | New and Noteworthy, Newman Today, Spirituality | 0
Newman’s Detractors … at NINS?
by Christopher Cimorelli | Jun 8, 2022 | History, New and Noteworthy, Newman Today | 0
It was all the more remarkable when I discovered a collection of “Newman detractors” on the premises, a collection indicating the conflict between Newman, the champion of Roman Catholicism in England, and mainly evangelical Free Church academics around the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.
Read MoreNINS’s Expanding Collections
by Christopher Cimorelli | Feb 23, 2022 | New and Noteworthy, Newman Today | 0
The National Institute for Newman Studies (NINS) is pleased to announce the ongoing expansion of our digital collections through formal agreements with several institutions in England.
Read MorePusey House, Oxford Joins NINS Digital Collections
by Jessica Woodward | Dec 8, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy, Newman Today | 0
For readers who are interested in using the Pusey House collections for their research, here is an overview of what we have. Only original materials have been digitized, so the digital collection is slightly smaller than the physical one, but every authentic Newman item we have should now be accessible online.
Read MoreA Collaborative Digitization Project between the National Institute of Newman Studies, Pittsburgh and the Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives, England
by Naomi Johnson | Sep 9, 2021 | New and Noteworthy, Newman Today | 0
As an archivist, I was incredibly excited by the platform and conceptualization of access that NINS was creating, showing a forward-thinking vision that was almost unheard of at the time.
Read MoreReading Louis Bouyer with Keith Lemna: A Review of The Apocalypse of Wisdom
by Laura Eloe | Aug 18, 2021 | Ecclesiology, New and Noteworthy, Newman Today, Spirituality | 0
The primary purpose of Lemna’s masterful book The Apocalypse of Wisdom: Louis Bouyer’s Theological Recovery of the Cosmos is to shed light on the “twists and turns of the path Bouyer charts in Cosmos” (xiii).
Read MoreA Pilgrimage with Newman: Reading Patricia O’Leary’s The Gentleman Saint
by Gerriet Suiter | Jul 1, 2021 | New and Noteworthy, Newman Today, Spirituality | 0
Patricia O’Leary’s The Gentleman Saint (Gracewing, 2020) is a short and delightful introduction to John Henry Newman.
Read MoreJohn Henry Newman’s Pandemic Ministry: A Balm for the Bereaved
by Peter Conley | May 5, 2021 | History, Newman Today, Spirituality | 0
Newman ministered to the sick and dying cholera victims and their families in Oxford, Birmingham, and Bilston.
Read MoreConsidering Online Education through Newman’s Principles
by Erika Kidd | Feb 24, 2021 | Education, Newman Today | 0
Newman’s The Idea of a University outlines his theory and ideal of university education and can offer us some important principles to guide our thinking about the possibilities of online education.
Read MoreNewman High: More Lessons for Secondary Teachers
by Vincent and Rebecca Vaccaro | Nov 18, 2020 | Education, Newman Today | 0
John Thompson’s post entitled “Newman High: Some Notes on Newman for Secondary Educators,” raises some important and timely questions for those teaching at the pre-college levels. We write to share one resource and three additional lessons from Newman that may further help secondary educators strengthen their professional practice.
Read MoreNewman and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius
by Joanna Bullivant | Nov 2, 2020 | History, Newman Today, Theology | 0
Composed in 1900, a decade after the Cardinal’s death, Elgar’s Gerontius is not a collaboration but a new interpretation. What, then, did Newman’s poem mean to Elgar, and how did the composer articulate Newman’s vision musically?
Read MoreIt is Better for Sun and Moon to Drop from Heaven
by David Mills | Sep 11, 2020 | Newman Today | 0
It’s one of Newman’s most notorious lines, and a claim I for one wish were untrue:”The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony
Read MoreNewman High: Some Notes on Newman for Secondary Educators
by John Thompson | Aug 11, 2020 | Education, Newman Today | 0
This month, many teachers like myself will be returning to our classrooms. It will be, like many things right now, challenging and uncertain. While some about our schools will be unfamiliar and new, much will remain the same.
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