The Church of the Fathers (Works of Cardinal Newman: Birmingham Oratory Millennium Edition, V) - Hardcover

Newman, John Henry Cardinal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0268022798 ISBN 13: 9780268022792

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003

Synopsis

John Henry Newman’s The Church of the Fathers contains some of his earliest writings on fourth-century Christianity. Composed at about the same time as The Arians of the Fourth Century and the first Tracts of the Oxford Movement, this polemical book was aimed at the general reader and is filled with extracts from Patristic writings.

In 1833 British Parliament enacted the controversial Irish Church Temporalities Bill, which proposed abolishing ten of the twenty-two sees of the Anglican Church of Ireland. Newman accused the State of violating the ancient doctrine of Apostolic Succession. In The Church of the Fathers, Newman draws parallels between the situation facing the Church in the fourth century and the Anglican Church in his day.

Published here for the first time in more than a century, this edition of The Church of the Fathers reunites material that had become separated in ongoing republications of Newman’s works. The text and appendices also contain original Newman material that has never before been published.

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About the Authors

British theologian John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) was a leading figure in both the Church of England and, after his conversion, the Roman Catholic Church and was known as "The Father of the Second Vatican Council." His Parochial and Plain Sermons (1834-42) is considered the best collection of sermons in the English language. He is also the author of A Grammar of Assent (1870).

Francis McGrath, F. M.S., is an Australian Marist Brother and author of John Henry Newman: Universal Revelation.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0268022798
• ISBN 13: 9780268022792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 648