John Henry Newman's "Apologia Pro Vita Sua" (1864) is a spiritual autobiography defending his career against Charles Kingsley's criticisms and serving as a historical source for the Oxford Movement.
Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864) is John Henry Newman's spiritual autobiography, written in response to Charles Kingsley's accusations about the Roman clergy's relationship with truth. It also documents the Oxford Movement.
| Front | apologia pro vita sua |
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| Back | spiritual autobiography john Henry Newman seven parts 1864 public quarrel with the militantly Protestant Charles Kingsley Kingsley has written: truth for its own sake has never been a virtue of the Roman clergy. father Newman informs us that it need not and on the whole ought not to be.' this work is also a historical source for Oxford Movement Newman had found in Kingsley's jibe a clear statement of the distrust with which the English public had long regarded his career as an Anglican clergyman. |
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