John Henry Newman was born in London in 1801. At fifteen he experienced an evangelical conversion, and at Oxford he became a fellow of Oriel College and vicar of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, where his sermons drew a generation of students. From 1833, through the Tracts for the Times, he led the Oxford Movement, which called the Church of England back to its roots in the early Church and the Fathers.
His study of the Fathers and of the growth of doctrine led him to the Catholic Church, into which he was received in 1845 by Dominic Barberi. He founded the Oratory of St Philip Neri at Birmingham, served as first rector of the Catholic University in Dublin, and in 1864 answered Charles Kingsley's charge of dishonesty with the Apologia pro Vita Sua. Leo XIII made him a cardinal in 1879. He died in 1890; he was canonised in 2019 and declared a Doctor of the Church in 2025.
John Henry Newman in the library (12 works)
- John Henry Newman: Apologia pro Vita Sua — 1864
Newman's account of his religious opinions, from evangelical boyhood through the Oxford Movement to the Catholic Church. - John Henry Newman: An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent — 1870
How ordinary people come to certainty in religion: Newman's study of belief, inference and the illative sense. - John Henry Newman: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine — 1845, revised 1878
Newman's argument that true doctrine grows like a living idea, and his seven notes for telling development from corruption. - John Henry Newman: Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. 1 — 1834–1843
The sermons Newman preached as an Anglican at St Mary's, Oxford: the classic English sermons on holiness, faith and the unseen world. - John Henry Newman: Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. 2 — 1834–1843
The sermons Newman preached as an Anglican at St Mary's, Oxford: the classic English sermons on holiness, faith and the unseen world. - John Henry Newman: Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. 3 — 1834–1843
The sermons Newman preached as an Anglican at St Mary's, Oxford: the classic English sermons on holiness, faith and the unseen world. - John Henry Newman: Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. 4 — 1834–1843
The sermons Newman preached as an Anglican at St Mary's, Oxford: the classic English sermons on holiness, faith and the unseen world. - John Henry Newman: Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. 5 — 1834–1843
The sermons Newman preached as an Anglican at St Mary's, Oxford: the classic English sermons on holiness, faith and the unseen world. - John Henry Newman: Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. 6 — 1834–1843
The sermons Newman preached as an Anglican at St Mary's, Oxford: the classic English sermons on holiness, faith and the unseen world. - John Henry Newman: Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. 7 — 1834–1843
The sermons Newman preached as an Anglican at St Mary's, Oxford: the classic English sermons on holiness, faith and the unseen world. - John Henry Newman: Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. 8 — 1834–1843
The sermons Newman preached as an Anglican at St Mary's, Oxford: the classic English sermons on holiness, faith and the unseen world. - Newman: The Arians of the Fourth Century — 1833; edition 1890
Newman's first book: the schools of Antioch and Alexandria, the rise of Arianism and the Council of Nicaea.