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The reissue of this important biography... will be welcomed, not only by those already deeply engaged with Newman's life and work, but also with that ever increasing number of people in whom recent events and the advancement of the canonisation process have aroused an interest in his real personality... Ian Ker's book, running to some 770 pages, is the modern biography for the modern reader... With Newman's canonisation fully expected by the end of this year the appearance of this book provides an opening into a new stage of a great man's posthumous life. Newman's rich legacy, in so many areas of history, theology, philosophy and culture, let alone spirtuality, continues to benefit us all. Peter Costello, The Irish Catholic Revised and updated since its first publication in 1988, this masterly biography makes clear how Newman came to cut such a commanding intellectual and spiritual figure in his own age and today. Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman Throughout, the proseis lucid and engaging, the analysis is thorough and the coverage of the subject is extensive. Alison Jack, Expository Times The additional material...makes the biography the most comprehensive and up-to-date study of Newman available. Fr Ker must be commended for a work which invaluably contributes to an historically true and fundamentally honest understanding of one of the greatest thinkers of our age. Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald

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Ian Ker is Senior Research Fellow at St Benet's Hall, Oxford and has taught both English literature and theology at universites in Britain and the United States. He is the author and editor of more than twenty books on Newman. His The Catholic Revival in English Literature 1845-1961 was published in 2003.

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