(1835-43) Parochial Sermons by John Henry Newman, M.A. (7 volumes)

Author: Newman, John Henry
Publisher: J. G. & F. Rivington, & J.H. Parker
Publication Location: London, 1835-1843
Binding: Contemporary Leather

"Octavo (5.25""x 8.5"") 1835-1843. Seven volumes in calf with blindstamp, diagonal-checkered design on all covers. Spine has 5 raised, gilt decorated bands with gilt author/title on gilt ruled black title block to second compartment, vol# in gilt to fourth, all others with blindstamped device. Minor bumps and rubs to covers and spine, overall a very attractive set of books. Marbled endpapers with Armorial bookplate of Edward Francis Witts to inside front covers. Early manuscript ownership to upper front free flyleaf of F.E. Witts, Upper Slaughter. All edges marbled. According to Wikipedia, ""John Henry Newman Cong. Orat. (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890), also referred to as Cardinal Newman, John Henry Cardinal Newman, and Blessed John Henry Newman, was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s.
Originally an evangelical Oxford University academic and priest in the Church of England, Newman then became drawn to the high-church tradition of Anglicanism. He became known as a leader of, and an able polemicist for, the Oxford Movement, an influential and controversial grouping of Anglicans who wished to return to the Church of England many Catholic beliefs and liturgical rituals from before the English Reformation. In this the movement had some success. However, in 1845 Newman, joined by some but not all of his followers, left the Church of England and his teaching post at Oxford University and was received into the Catholic Church. He was quickly ordained as a priest and continued as an influential religious leader, based in Birmingham. In 1879, he was created a cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in recognition of his services to the cause of the Catholic Church in England. He was instrumental in the founding of the Catholic University of Ireland, which evolved into University College, Dublin, today the largest university in Ireland.
Newman's beatification was officially proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI on 19 September 2010 during his visit to the United Kingdom. His canonisation is dependent on the documentation of additional miracles attributed to his intercession.

Newman was also a literary figure of note: his major writings including the Tracts for the Times (1833–1841), his autobiography Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1865–66), the Grammar of Assent (1870), and the poem The Dream of Gerontius (1865), which was set to music in 1900 by Edward Elgar. He wrote the popular hymns ""Lead, Kindly Light"" and ""Praise to the Holiest in the Height"" """

Keywords: Religion, Oxford Movement, Reformation,

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