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Unlikely Soul Mates: Robert Browning and St. John Henry Newman
Despite their differences, and although Newman and Browning never met, they shared similar life experiences, and literary techniques, and both were concerned with the justification of Christianity, as well as the struggle between faith and doubt. Another parallel between these writers concerns their poetic interests.
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The Spanish Edition of Newman’s Letter to Pusey
Newman’s influence is not relegated to the English-speaking world only; rather, it can be seen in the Spanish-speaking world as well.
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Why Lingard Didn’t Like Newman
Lingard remarked upon Newman’s career several times in his correspondence, usually with a mixture of suspicion and curiosity.
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A Collaborative Digitization Project between the National Institute of Newman Studies, Pittsburgh and the Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives, England
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.
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“Telling Stories that Matter”: Reading Marvin O’Connell’s Memoirs
The book, Telling Stories that Matter: Memoirs & Essays, is comprised of O’Connell’s late-in-life memoirs of how he became interested in the academic study of history, as well as some of his shorter essays and book reviews.
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Blessed Ignatius Spencer’s Correspondence with Saint John Henry Newman
Just last month, on February 20th, Pope Francis declared that the nineteenth-century Passionist priest, Fr. Ignatius Spencer, would be known as the Venerable Ignatius Spencer.
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Newman in America: Correspondence with J. B. Purcell, Archbishop of Cincinnati
In 1875 John Baptist Purcell wrote to Newman that some in the United States were opposed to a pamphlet he published in a Catholic Liverpool paper.
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Fr. John Lingard (1771-1851): Between Enlightened Catholicism and the Newmanian Second Spring
This essay will introduce readers to Lingard, one of the major intellectual lights of the English Catholic community when Newman joined it in 1845 at Littlemore.
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“Twelve Ways of Looking at a Saint”: Review of “A Human Harp of Many Chords”
Recently, a friend and I realized over a beer that we did not know what a good confession looked like. We had seen good (and bad) Masses; we had witnessed the efficacious baptism and confirmation.
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Newman as Complex and Influential: A Review of Eamon Duffy’s “John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History”
Eamon Duffy’s recently published, John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History, provides a concise and well-articulated introduction to who Newman was and who Newman was perceived to be in scholarship.
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Window into the Heart of a Saint: A Review of Michael Collins’s Newman: A Short Biography
Fr. Michael Collins, a priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin and graduate of University College of Dublin, which developed from John Henry Newman’s Catholic University, has composed an excellent short introduction to the life of John Henry Newman.
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Newman and Locke on the Epistemic Scope of CertitudeApril 27, 2022In the scholarly literature, John Locke (1632–1704) features as a formative influence on Newman’s philosophical thought. What usually gets highlighted, for example in the Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, are Newman’s criticism of Locke’s notion of degreed assent and his call for a broader and more nuanced account of the rationality of religious belief. However, some have argued that the Grammar largely focuses on the psychological conditions of religious belief. […]
Unlikely Soul Mates: Robert Browning and St. John Henry NewmanApril 5, 2022Despite their differences, and although Newman and Browning never met, they shared similar life experiences, and literary techniques, and both were concerned with the justification of Christianity, as well as the struggle between faith and doubt. Another parallel between these writers concerns their poetic interests. […]
NINS’s Expanding CollectionsFebruary 23, 2022The 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. […]
The Idea Idearum in Newman and BouyerDecember 16, 2021An important theological theme in the Christian tradition is that of the divine ideas or logoi in the mind or Word of God by which God knows and loves in himself eternally all the ways that creatures can or do participate in a living likeness of him. […]
Pusey House, Oxford Joins NINS Digital CollectionsDecember 8, 2021For 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. […]