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by F Turner (Author) "The protagonist of this volume is not John Henry Cardinal Newman, whom many people regard as the father of the Second Vatican Council, whose name..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 752 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press; Ill edition (13 Sep 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0300092512
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300092516
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.4 x 5.4 cm
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"Frank Turner is one of the leading historians of nineteenth-century Britain and arguably the leading intellectual historian, so expectations for this book run high - and they are not disappointed, for this is his crowning achievement." - Boyd Hilton, Cambridge University; "Frank Turner's meticulously researched, brilliantly revisionist book hurls a grenade into Newman studies... This magisterial work of intellectual archaeology forcefully conveys the complexity and conflict of early Victorian religion." - George P. Landow, Brown University


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"Frank Turner’s meticulously researched, brilliantly revisionist book hurls a grenade into Newman studies ... This magisterial work of intellectual archaeology forcefully conveys the complexity and conflict of early Victorian religion."
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The protagonist of this volume is not John Henry Cardinal Newman, whom many people regard as the father of the Second Vatican Council, whose name adorns Roman Catholic student societies on numerous North American college and university campuses as well as scores of websites, and the cause of whose sainthood has been pressed for some time. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very thorough book, 8 Jan 2004
The general consensus about this book is far from wrong - Frank Turner has written a thoroughly comprehensive book worthy of scholastic merit. It not only details the trials and tribulations of Newman as an ascetic character in pursuit of religious ideals, but also gives the reader a full background on religion in Victorian England. With the Victorian religious landscape rapidly becoming a "free market" which catered for an individualistic approach to Christianity, many people found themselves desperately trying to defend not only their Christian values but also the very foundations upon which their own Anglican denominations were based.

Newman was no exception here. However, as a young man amongst likeminded high-Anglican fellows, he was vehemently polemical, angrily attacking not only his superiors at Oxford but also his own two brothers. Turner is shrewd to make a link between Newman's conflicts in his professional life with those more personal ones that existed in his family. But, at the same time, this is presented alongside the noble and apostolic ideals of Newman, a sensitive individual whose own family life became troublesome later on in his teenage years.

The great thing about this book is how Turner has tried to tackle the complex character of Newman: a man who was both intelligent and nobleminded, and yet also quarrelsome and easily offended (and often personally) by those who chose opinions different to his own. He remains a great and fascinating man in the religious landscape of Victorian England.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating insight into early Victorian religious belief, 23 Oct 2002
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I bought this book because some years ago I had read Frank Turner's fine study The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain. While Newman is the primary focus of the book it provides a fascinating insight into the introspective world of Oxford religious belief of the 1830s and 1840s. These are not your muscular Christians out in the world doing good but in many cases more tortured souls who worry endlessly about the correct emotional response to their faith and exactly where its authority comes from. Turner's meticulous and absorbing dissection of the debates shows how difficult it was for any agreement to be possible and explains why tolerance came to be in short supply. Newman makes his own unhappy way through the quagmire until he isolates himself so effectively from Anglicanism he has nowhere to go but Rome.
This is a long book, will not appeal to everyone (I suppose Newman fans will feel that their hero is brought too much down to earth) and the central points are sometimes repeated too often but it is an impressive work of scholarship. It deserves to be read but, more than this, discussed as a study of the difficulties in finding any religious certainty.
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