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Author: Roderick Strange (Rector of the Pontifical Beda College, Rome)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 5.10cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 1.006kg
ISBN: 9780199604142
ISBN 10: 0199604142
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 29 October 2015
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Great writers are not always great letter-writers: Charles Dickens was, George Eliot wasn't. John Henry Newman, one of the great Victorian prose writers, was also one of our great letter-writers, whose extant letters fill thirty-two daunting volumes, which Roderick Strange has now made accessible with this carefully chosen and excellently introduced selection. Ian Ker This admirable anthology will enable many to discover Newman as a correspondent who is a brilliant stylist, a sharp-and sometimes humorous-observer of humanity, and an incisive theological teacher, who still has much to say not only to Anglicans and Catholics but to many more today. The Rt Revd Dr Geoffrey Rowell, Emeritus Fellow, Keble College, Oxford, Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe 2001-2013
No one, to my mind, has ever written a biography of Newman which quite captures him. This book does so, however, in all his paradoxical greatness. Thank you, Mgr Strange. A.N. Wilson, The Tablet Highly recommended Church of England Newspaper A fascinating glimpse into this extraordinary mind Catholic Herald Great writers are not always great letter-writers: Charles Dickens was, George Eliot wasn't. John Henry Newman, one of the great Victorian prose writers, was also one of our great letter-writers, whose extant letters fill thirty-two daunting volumes, which Roderick Strange has now made accessible with this carefully chosen and excellently introduced selection. Ian Ker This admirable anthology will enable many to discover Newman as a correspondent who is a brilliant stylist, a sharp-and sometimes humorous-observer of humanity, and an incisive theological teacher, who still has much to say not only to Anglicans and Catholics but to many more today. Rt Revd Dr Geoffrey Rowell Those who delve into the life and thought of John Henry Newman are inevitably daunted by the sheer wealth of material available, including Newman's own voluminous writings. By means of a judicious selection of Newman's letters, set clearly against the background out of which they emerged, Roderick Strange succeeds in providing his readers with a comprehensive and nuanced portrait of the complex genius who was John Henry Newman. This work confirms Newman's own claim that a man's life lies in his letters . Terrence Merrigan These wonderful letters help us to understand how friendship was at the heart of Newman's life. We see here practical active charity and, of course, his wonderful, sensitive master of the English language. Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. This admirable anthology will enable many to discover Newman as a correspondent who is a brilliant stylist, a sharp-and sometimes humorous-observer of humanity, and an incisive theological teacher, who still has much to say not only to Anglicans and Catholics but to many more today. The Rt Revd Dr Geoffrey Rowell, Emeritus Fellow, Keble College, Oxford, Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe 2001-2013
Author Information
Roderick Strange was rector of the Pontifical Beda College, Rome, from 1998 to the summer of 2015. He was ordained as a priest of the Shrewsbury Diocese in 1969 and, besides working as a parish priest, he has been the Catholic Chaplain at Oxford University and the chairman of the National Conference of Priests. He has written extensively on Newman including John Henry Newman: A Mind Alive (Darton, Longman, and Todd 2008) and Newman 101 (Christian Classics 2008).
