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  • John Henry Newman
    Ian Ker
    This full-length life of John Henry Newman is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the thinker and writer. It draws extensively on material from Newman’s letters and papers. Newman’s character is revealed in its complexity and contrasts: the legendary sadness and sensitivity are placed in their proper perspective by being set against his no less striking qualit...
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    18,52 €

  • G. K. Chesterton
    Ian Ker
    G. K. Chesterton is remembered as a brilliant creator of nonsense and satirical verse, author of the Father Brown stories and the innovative novel, The Man who was Thursday, and yet today he is not counted among the major English novelists and poets. However, this major new biography argues that Chesterton should be seen as the successor of the great Victorian prose writers, Ca...
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    59,04 €

  • Mere Catholicism
    Fr. Ian Ker / FrIan Ker
    Mere Catholicism explains in easily accessible, non-technical language the fundamental doctrines of Catholicism. It also shows how these doctrines follow naturally from the fundamental doctrines common to orthodox Christians ("mere Christianity"). Catholicism can mystify or even repel other Christians, while its complexities can confuse Catholics themselves. Ian Ker’s stimulati...
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    22,48 €

  • Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961, The
    Ian Ker
    The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961 presents a thorough discussion of the six principal writers of the Catholic revival in English literature-Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, and Waugh. Beginning with Newman’s conversion in 1845 and ending with Waugh’s completion of the triology The Sword of Honor in 1961, this book explores how Catholicism shaped ...
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    42,69 €

  • The Achievement of John Henry Newman
    Ian Ker
    The centennial of John Henry Newman’s death in 1890 marks an appropriate time for a critical reevaluation of his work. Here Ian Ker, noted Newman scholar and author of the definitive John Henry Newman: A Biography, considers Newman’s achievement as a whole but in a focused and selective way. Ker deliberately concentrates on five aspects of Newman’s intellectual and literary ach...
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    42,96 €

  • Achievement of John Henry Newman
    Ian T. Ker
    An excellent, very readable summary of Cardinal Newman’s intellectual achievement - Ker’s most original contribution lies in his attempt to credit Newman with an original theory of knowledge and enduring significance as a philosopher.Library Journal ...
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    68,19 €