Faith and Prejudice

by John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press

— A Classic — Includes Active Table of Contents — Includes Religious Illustrations

Of the sermons Cardinal Newman composed after becoming a Catholic, and of which the autograph has been preserved, only nine seem to have escaped publication, and these are now printed here for the first time. If the most striking of them is that intended for the opening of the Seminary at Olton in 1873, with its grim forecast of the future course of unbelief, the earlier ones have a special interest of their own. They were preached at St. Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, in the Spring of 1848, almost at once after Newman’s return from Rome as a priest of the Oratory. They are thus the first sermons he preached in England after he had left Oxford and the Anglican Communion.

Aeterna Press

Genres: Religion

68 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1956

About the author

Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s.
Originally an evangelical Oxford University academic and priest in the Church of England, Newman then became drawn to the high-church tradition of Anglicanism. He became known as a leader of, and an able polemicist for, the Oxford Movement, an influential and controversial grouping of Anglicans who wished to return to the Church of England many Catholic beliefs and liturgical rituals from before the English Reformation. In this the movement had some success. However, in 1845 Newman, joined by some but not all of his followers, left the Church of England and his teaching post at Oxford University and was received into the Catholic Church. He was quickly ordained as a priest and continued as an influential religious leader, based in Birmingham. In 1879, he was created a cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in recognition of his services to the cause of the Catholic Church in England. He was instrumental in the founding of the Catholic University of Ireland, which evolved into University College Dublin, today the largest university in Ireland.

Newman was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI on 19 September 2010 during his visit to the United Kingdom. He was then canonised by Pope Francis on 13 October 2019.

Newman was also a literary figure of note: his major writings including the Tracts for the Times (1833–1841), his autobiography Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1865–66), the Grammar of Assent (1870), and the poem The Dream of Gerontius (1865),[6] which was set to music in 1900 by Edward Elgar. He wrote the popular hymns "Lead, Kindly Light" and "Praise to the Holiest in the Height" (taken from Gerontius).

Reviews

[Fabrício · Rating 5 out of 5]

Esta publicação é um conjunto de nove sermões do Cardeal Newman que ainda não tinham sido publicados em coletâneas anteriores.
Esses nove sermões são, em sua maioria, de 1848, compreendidos entre o período que antecede a Quaresma e seus três primeiros domingos.
As reflexões apresentadas realmente são valiosas, Newman tinha uma dedicação e um talento excepcionais para comunicar o Evangelho. Dentre eles o que mais me chamou atenção foi o sétimo sermão, sobre a figura de Nossa Senhora no Evangelho.
Recomendo a leitura, o livro é curto e sua estrutura permite que cada sermão seja lido individualmente, ou em conjunto.

[Camilla · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent, soul nourishing compendium of Newman's works.