Apologia pro vita sua

by John Henry Newman

Other authorsI. T. Ker
Paper Book, 2004

Status

Available

Call number

BX4705.N5N453 2004

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, 1994.

Awards

Physical description

xxxvii, 561 p.; 20 cm

Barcode

3000003320

User reviews

LibraryThing member shawd63
Important read for anyone who is Anglican but finds themselves drawn to Rome. I'm not really qualified to give a good review of this book, but will say this: know your church history and Anglican documents well before you read--for instance it's important to know the 39 Articles, or at least have
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access to them, so you understand what Newman was wrestling with before he wrote Tract 90 and later went to Rome.
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LibraryThing member palaverofbirds
Boy, did I not really get much out of this book. I was a bit curious, having also been one who sort of unexpectedly went Catholic one day, to some persons' surprise. To me the book is just rather locked in its timely position in 19th century English church life, and more universal aspects of faith
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and religion were passed aside. Fine, okay, no one says an autobiography has to be generational, but I expected more by this book's repuation.
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LibraryThing member palaverofbirds
Boy, did I not really get much out of this book. I was a bit curious, having also been one who sort of unexpectedly went Catholic one day, to some persons' surprise. To me the book is just rather locked in its timely position in 19th century English church life, and more universal aspects of faith
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and religion were passed aside. Fine, okay, no one says an autobiography has to be generational, but I expected more by this book's repuation.
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LibraryThing member palaverofbirds
Boy, did I not really get much out of this book. I was a bit curious, having also been one who sort of unexpectedly went Catholic one day, to some persons' surprise. To me the book is just rather locked in its timely position in 19th century English church life, and more universal aspects of faith
Show More
and religion were passed aside. Fine, okay, no one says an autobiography has to be generational, but I expected more by this book's repuation.
Show Less
LibraryThing member palaverofbirds
Boy, did I not really get much out of this book. I was a bit curious, having also been one who sort of unexpectedly went Catholic one day, to some persons' surprise. To me the book is just rather locked in its timely position in 19th century English church life, and more universal aspects of faith
Show More
and religion were passed aside. Fine, okay, no one says an autobiography has to be generational, but I expected more by this book's repuation.
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LibraryThing member stillatim
I suspect I would have been better served reading about Newman than reading him, though his prose is quite lovely (by eighteenth century standards, at least, which are rather low). This is an excellent edition, though.

Original publication date

1864
1994 [this edition only]

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