Apologia pro Vita sua:

£1,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

with the original wrappers bound-in The first edition of John Henry Newman's (1801-1890) great spiritual autobiography and defence of Roman Catholic doctrine, with the original wrappers bound-in to the rear. As a young man, Newman had been a leading member of the Oxford Movement, which proposed a 'via media' between the reformed Christianity of the Protestant churches and Roman Catholicism. It had been his idea to pen the 'Tracts for the Times', a series of 90 theological essays which sought to secure the Church of England a firm doctrinal footing grounded in apostolic succession, and so free it from Parliamentary interference, giving rise to the movement's second moniker, Tractarianism. His later conversion to Catholicism led to Newman's quiet withdrawal from English public life for nearly twenty-years until the events of 1864 offered an opportunity for his return to the public stage. The subsequent success of the Apologia marked a turning point in the fortunes of his late life, culminating in Newman's elevation to the College of Cardinals in 1879, and his eventual canonisation in 2019. The controversy was triggered by a review of Froude's History of England which appeared in Macmillan's Magazine in January 1864. The author, Charles, Kingsley (1819-1875), Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, was also an ordained Anglican priest with connections to the royal household. In discussing Froude's treatment of Catholic intrigue in the reign of Elizabet

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