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Newman's unquiet grave [electronic resource] : the reluctant saint / by John Cornwell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Continuum, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 273 p., [8] of plates) : ill., portsISBN:
  • 9781441172136 (electronic bk.)
  • 1441172130 (electronic bk.)
Other title:
  • Reluctant saint
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Newman's unquiet grave.DDC classification:
  • 282.092 22
LOC classification:
  • BX4705.N5 C67 2010eb
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Contents:
Preface; Prologue; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes to the Chapters (and the Abbreviations used); Index;
Summary: John Henry Newman was the most eminent English-speaking Christian thinker and writer of the past two hundred years. James Joyce hailed him the 'greatest' prose stylist of the Victorian age. A problematic campaign to canonise Newman started fifty years ago. After many delays John Paul II declared him a 'Venerable'. Then Pope Benedict XVI, a keen student of Newman's works, pressed for his beatification. But was Newman a 'Saint'? In Newman's Unquiet Grave John Cornwell (author of A Thief in the Night and Hitler's Pope ) tells the story of the chequered attempts to establish Newman's sanctity agai
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Preface; Prologue; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes to the Chapters (and the Abbreviations used); Index;

John Henry Newman was the most eminent English-speaking Christian thinker and writer of the past two hundred years. James Joyce hailed him the 'greatest' prose stylist of the Victorian age. A problematic campaign to canonise Newman started fifty years ago. After many delays John Paul II declared him a 'Venerable'. Then Pope Benedict XVI, a keen student of Newman's works, pressed for his beatification. But was Newman a 'Saint'? In Newman's Unquiet Grave John Cornwell (author of A Thief in the Night and Hitler's Pope ) tells the story of the chequered attempts to establish Newman's sanctity agai

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