Newman and His Contemporaries
Autor Edward Shorten Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 iun 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780567026897
ISBN-10: 0567026892
Pagini: 544
Ilustrații: 5 illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.91 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția T&T Clark
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0567026892
Pagini: 544
Ilustrații: 5 illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.91 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția T&T Clark
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
The book will also stress that Newman's influence was as much or perhaps even more a personal than merely a philosophical influence. Even those who thought his Catholicism patently absurd Gladstone, for example showed great respect and fondness for the man.
Notă biografică
Edward Short is the author of Newman and his Contemporaries. His latest book, Newman and his Family will be published by Bloomsbury in August of 2013. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York.
Cuprins
Preface \ Introduction \ Chapter 1: John Keble and the Crisis of Tractarianism \ Chapter 2: Staying Put: John Keble After 1845 \ Chapter 3: The Anglican Difficulties of Edward Pusey \ Chapter 4: The Certainty of Vocation: Newman and the Froudes \ Chapter 5: A Better Country: Newman and Public Life \ Chapter 6:Newman and the Female Faithful \ Chapter 7: Newman and Gladstone \ Chapter 8: Newman, Thackeray and Vanity Fair \ Chapter 9:Newman and the Americans \ Chapter 10: On the Track of Truth: Newman and Richard Holt Hutton \ Chapter 11: Culture and Hollowness: Newman and Matthew Arnold \ Chapter 12:Newman and Arthur Hugh Clough \ Chapter 13: Newman on Newman \ Biographical Index \ Bibliographical Note \ Index
Recenzii
This book... with its rich cast-list and broad sweep, will be a valued addition to the libraries not only of the Newmaniacs but of anyone who takes the 19th century seriously and who wishes to explore its often alien ideas and characters.
This formidably researched and carefully organised book provides a valuable approach to a much-covered subject from a novel angle. A very rigorous and readable account of the personal impact of one of England's greatest intellectuals on a fascinating range of his contemporaries and is a valuable addition to the Newman literature.
Newman and his Contemporaries sets out to place Newman in context and in dialogue with a range of his contemporaries. Newman famously said that 'a man's life is in his letters.' The 30 or so volumes of Newman's Letters and Diaries provide a significant quarry for Short's exploration ... In its rich citations from Newman's correspondence Newman and his Contemporaries reminds us of Newman's skill as a pastoral theologian and theological apologist ... Newman saw that there were hard questions for Anglicans to answer, with which we need to continue to wrestle-about authority, about the right discernment of development, and, fundamentally, about the nature of the Church. If this book provokes us to do this, then it will have achieved one of its purposes.
Newman and His Contemporaries offers a fresh voice to the field by... looking at the impact that Blessed Newman had upon a number of his contemporaries ... Perhaps most impressively, Short demonstrates an intimate familiarity with the relevant literature, navigating with ease both Newman's writings as well as the published works and personal correspondence of Newman's interlocutors ... His prose is exceedingly readable ... Overall, I found Short's monograph to be both impressive and also accessible.
Edward Short's Newman and His Contemporaries is that most intellectually satisfying phenomenon; a deeply-researched, beautifully-written and important book that answers all the questions it sets itself, and all that any reader may also ask. The Oxford Movement might not engage many people today, but in Victorian England it was an absolutely revolutionary concept and the author blows pure oxygen onto its almost-dead embers in recreating its crises and controversies. Moreover, the reader doesn't need to know anything about Tractarianism to enjoy the perceptive and witty essays covering the Cardinal's relations with such figures as Gladstone, Thackeray, Arnold, Clough and the Froudes.
Edward Short puts us in contact with Newman's opinions and decisions, but does so via a well-chosen selection of his contemporaries. The result is a fresh reading of, and insight into, the dramatic character of Blessed John Henry Newman's eventful, even iconic, life. Newman and his Contemporaries can be highly recommended to both Newman specialists and Newman beginners.
Interesting and massive ... Admirers of Ian Ker's John Henry Newman: A Biography should find Short's book a useful complement to that study. Despite its 403 pages of dense small print, the main text reads easily and is full of rich material from Newman's Letters and Diaries and many other sources. It illuminates well-known contemporaries of Newman and helpfully introduces others who are less well-known ... an excellent book which belongs in every serious library.
One of the greatest merits of this book (in addition to the author's lively style) is Short's extensive use of Newman's correspondence, a voluminous collection of letters that would otherwise remain largely unknown except to dedicated researchers ... Short allows the sources to speak for themselves and he presents them in a wonderfully readable and even entertaining fashion while managing, at the same time, to introduce his readers to the essential elements of Newman's theology ... Eminently readable and enlightening.
Throughout he demonstrates an extensive knowledge of the novels, the criticism each has received, the author's life, and the Bible and its traditional exegeses.
Novelists, social critics, politicians and journalists, scientists and clergymen are all well-represented ... The numerous photographs which illustrate the book help to bring its many characters to life. Highly recommended!
Here Short offers an engaging account of how [Newman's] inner life gave manifestation to his role in the public life of the nineteenth century.
Another Newman book? Well, yes, and a particularly fine one that explores Newman's relationships with the great ecclesiastical, literary, political and journalistic figures of his time. Short's close reading of Newman's vast correspondence also demonstrates just how many of our post-Vatican II arguments were anticipated in the 19th century among Newman and his interlocutors.
Chosen by Andrew Roberts as one of his favourite books on thedailybeast.com
I heartily recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Blessed John Henry Newman, especially if they have general knowledge of Newman's life and works.
In this well-researched book, Edward Short shows how Newman, far from being the self-absorbed introvert as some have claimed, had a wide circle of friends who benefited from his extraordinary powers of empathy. Newman and his Contemporaries is a useful introduction to this essential quality of the man and will send readers back not only to Newman's published works but to his wonderful letters.
This book is a charming blend of erudition, lively commentary and judicious selection of sources. Eavesdropping on heart-to-heart conversations with novelists and social critics, politicians and journalists, scientists and clergymen, Short has succeeded in bringing alive some of Newman's most engaging correspondence and setting it within its proper historical framework. The Newman that emerges from this study confronts the modern reader on the burning issues of the times - both his times and ours - and captivates us by his subtlety of mind, his exquisite prose style and his genius for friendship.
Newman and His Contemporaries is like a Victorian Dance to the Music of Time, except the characters are all real historical figures. Social historians, Spectator readers, literate people in general, young BXVI generation Catholics and those old enough to finish the sentence 'Introibo ad Altare Dei' will love it. This is a book to be taken on a summer holiday and read under a palm tree with a gin and tonic. Social histories can be boring and sag in the middle, but this one isn't. It's a soufflé that doesn't flop.
This formidably researched and carefully organised book provides a valuable approach to a much-covered subject from a novel angle. A very rigorous and readable account of the personal impact of one of England's greatest intellectuals on a fascinating range of his contemporaries and is a valuable addition to the Newman literature.
Newman and his Contemporaries sets out to place Newman in context and in dialogue with a range of his contemporaries. Newman famously said that 'a man's life is in his letters.' The 30 or so volumes of Newman's Letters and Diaries provide a significant quarry for Short's exploration ... In its rich citations from Newman's correspondence Newman and his Contemporaries reminds us of Newman's skill as a pastoral theologian and theological apologist ... Newman saw that there were hard questions for Anglicans to answer, with which we need to continue to wrestle-about authority, about the right discernment of development, and, fundamentally, about the nature of the Church. If this book provokes us to do this, then it will have achieved one of its purposes.
Newman and His Contemporaries offers a fresh voice to the field by... looking at the impact that Blessed Newman had upon a number of his contemporaries ... Perhaps most impressively, Short demonstrates an intimate familiarity with the relevant literature, navigating with ease both Newman's writings as well as the published works and personal correspondence of Newman's interlocutors ... His prose is exceedingly readable ... Overall, I found Short's monograph to be both impressive and also accessible.
Edward Short's Newman and His Contemporaries is that most intellectually satisfying phenomenon; a deeply-researched, beautifully-written and important book that answers all the questions it sets itself, and all that any reader may also ask. The Oxford Movement might not engage many people today, but in Victorian England it was an absolutely revolutionary concept and the author blows pure oxygen onto its almost-dead embers in recreating its crises and controversies. Moreover, the reader doesn't need to know anything about Tractarianism to enjoy the perceptive and witty essays covering the Cardinal's relations with such figures as Gladstone, Thackeray, Arnold, Clough and the Froudes.
Edward Short puts us in contact with Newman's opinions and decisions, but does so via a well-chosen selection of his contemporaries. The result is a fresh reading of, and insight into, the dramatic character of Blessed John Henry Newman's eventful, even iconic, life. Newman and his Contemporaries can be highly recommended to both Newman specialists and Newman beginners.
Interesting and massive ... Admirers of Ian Ker's John Henry Newman: A Biography should find Short's book a useful complement to that study. Despite its 403 pages of dense small print, the main text reads easily and is full of rich material from Newman's Letters and Diaries and many other sources. It illuminates well-known contemporaries of Newman and helpfully introduces others who are less well-known ... an excellent book which belongs in every serious library.
One of the greatest merits of this book (in addition to the author's lively style) is Short's extensive use of Newman's correspondence, a voluminous collection of letters that would otherwise remain largely unknown except to dedicated researchers ... Short allows the sources to speak for themselves and he presents them in a wonderfully readable and even entertaining fashion while managing, at the same time, to introduce his readers to the essential elements of Newman's theology ... Eminently readable and enlightening.
Throughout he demonstrates an extensive knowledge of the novels, the criticism each has received, the author's life, and the Bible and its traditional exegeses.
Novelists, social critics, politicians and journalists, scientists and clergymen are all well-represented ... The numerous photographs which illustrate the book help to bring its many characters to life. Highly recommended!
Here Short offers an engaging account of how [Newman's] inner life gave manifestation to his role in the public life of the nineteenth century.
Another Newman book? Well, yes, and a particularly fine one that explores Newman's relationships with the great ecclesiastical, literary, political and journalistic figures of his time. Short's close reading of Newman's vast correspondence also demonstrates just how many of our post-Vatican II arguments were anticipated in the 19th century among Newman and his interlocutors.
Chosen by Andrew Roberts as one of his favourite books on thedailybeast.com
I heartily recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Blessed John Henry Newman, especially if they have general knowledge of Newman's life and works.
In this well-researched book, Edward Short shows how Newman, far from being the self-absorbed introvert as some have claimed, had a wide circle of friends who benefited from his extraordinary powers of empathy. Newman and his Contemporaries is a useful introduction to this essential quality of the man and will send readers back not only to Newman's published works but to his wonderful letters.
This book is a charming blend of erudition, lively commentary and judicious selection of sources. Eavesdropping on heart-to-heart conversations with novelists and social critics, politicians and journalists, scientists and clergymen, Short has succeeded in bringing alive some of Newman's most engaging correspondence and setting it within its proper historical framework. The Newman that emerges from this study confronts the modern reader on the burning issues of the times - both his times and ours - and captivates us by his subtlety of mind, his exquisite prose style and his genius for friendship.
Newman and His Contemporaries is like a Victorian Dance to the Music of Time, except the characters are all real historical figures. Social historians, Spectator readers, literate people in general, young BXVI generation Catholics and those old enough to finish the sentence 'Introibo ad Altare Dei' will love it. This is a book to be taken on a summer holiday and read under a palm tree with a gin and tonic. Social histories can be boring and sag in the middle, but this one isn't. It's a soufflé that doesn't flop.