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  • Newman and his Contemporaries
    Edward Short
    No one in nineteenth-century England had a more varied circle of friends and contacts than St John Henry Newman (1801-1890), the priest, theologian, educator, philosopher, poet and writer, who began his career as an Anglican, converted to Catholicism and ended his days a Cardinal. That he was also a leading member of the Oxford Movement, brought the Oratory of St. Philip to Eng...
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    61,36 €

  • Newman and his Family
    Edward Short
    John Henry Newman (1801-90), the priest, educator, theologian, philosopher, novelist, poet and satirist both learned from and was transformed by his parents and his brothers and sisters. The son of a banker in the City of London and a Huguenot mother whose family were famous and innovative paper makers and printers, Newman was the eldest of six children, two boys and three girl...
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    61,61 €

  • Newman and his Critics
    Edward Short
    'Criticism is often received as a sharp sword, enraging and embittering the recipient. Yet it may also prompt an honest re-examination and a humble defense of one’s writings. Newman and his Critics, Edward Short’s masterful account of John Henry Newman’s dealings with hiscritics demonstrates that Newman’s charity and love of the truth brought forth magnificent writings that are...
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    60,95 €

  • What the Bells Sang. Essays and Reviews
    Edward Short
    Acclaimed essayist Edward Short writes with his usual insight and brio on a range of historical, literary and Newmanian matters. Here are essays on the poets Thomas Hardy and Lord Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling and T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and Elizabeth Jennings; on the historians G.M. Trevelyan, Christopher Dawson, R.W. Southern and Andrew Roberts; on the novelists Anthony Trollope, ...
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    43,65 €

  • An Enquiry Into the Power of Dispensing With Penal Statutes
    Robert Atkyns / Edward 1648?-1698. Short accou Herbert / Edward 1648?-1698Short accou Herbert
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    15,02 €

  • Newman and History
    Edward Short
    In Newman and History, Edward Short shows how important history was to all aspects of the life and work of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman. There are essays here on Newman and Edward Gibbon; Newman and the Whig historians; and Newman and the law, especially the infamous Achilli trial of 1851, which pitted him against a Protestant Establishment still smarting from the restora...
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    32,32 €

  • Adventures in the Book Pages
    Edward Short
    In Adventures in the Book Pages, Edward Short shares his insights into history, literature, music, art, religion, and biography from a refreshingly Catholic standpoint. Here are essays and reviews on Renaissance portraiture, Catholic poetry, the Great War, Europe entre deux guerres, and the Blue Plaques of London. There are also pieces on Ben Jonson, Samuel Johnson, W. M. Thack...
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    41,19 €

  • Culture and Abortion
    Edward Short
    In Christifideles Laici (1988), Pope John Paul II exhorts his readers to recognize that 'The inviolability of the person, which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in the inviolability of human life.' For this great champion of life, 'the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights ... the right to...
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    29,47 €