Loss and Gain
This is a novel that paints a vivid picture of religion in Oxford at the time of the Oxford Movement. Charles Reding is the son of a clergyman and is an undergraduate at the university and his friends and...
NEWMAN, John Henry
An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent
The Religious Assent is an essay that addresses the reasonableness of the Christian faith and the certainty that believers can have regarding the fundamental truths of Christianity. Newman explores how...
Apologia pro vita sua
Apologia arose from a newspaper review that Newman felt compelled to respond to while living in seclusion at the Birmingham Oratory, devoted to his educational ideals and promoting the Catholic laity. The...
Fifteen Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford (1826-1843)
Newman himself called the Oxford University Sermons, first published in 1843, the best, not the most perfect, book I have done. He added, I mean there is more to develop in it. Indeed, the...
The rise and progress of the universities
A collection of articles by St. John Henry Newman, published in magazines and newspapers, about the university education in a difficult time.
Newman was appointed the first rector of the new...
The Dream of Gerontius
The longest Poem written by John Henry Newman, consisting of the prayer transit of a dying man, and what happens next.
Written in 1865, after Newman's conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism...
Callista
Newman recreates the world of Roman North Africa during the persecutions of Christians in the third century. The novel follows Callista, an educated and restless pagan young woman who seeks a truth capable...
A Letter Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk on Occasion of Mr. Gladstone’s Recent Expostulation
On the moral conscience and its freedom. Defends Catholics from the charge that submission to the Roman Pontiff robs them of their freedom. It also defends papal infallibility, fidelity to the Catholic...
Apologia pro vita sua
Spiritual autobiography of a man who seeks his own consciousness. The book is a delight to read, literally fluid, well written, based on the documented facts of his own life story, and the fundaments of his...