Name: Saint John Henry Newman
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Saint John Henry Newman

Preserving and Promulgating His Legacy

Edited By: Robert C. Christie

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This volume of essays argues that John Henry Newman’s legacy is a vital resource for believers confronting a secular world and a church in crisis. Noted scholars address faith, knowledge, education, and relationships, offering much to ponder for all readers.

This volume of essays, sponsored by the Newman Association of America, serves to identify, preserve, and promote the legacy of John Henry Newman. It argues…

This volume of essays, sponsored by the Newman Association of America, serves to identify, preserve, and promote the legacy of John Henry Newman. It argues that eleven major elements of Newman’s life and work speak to us today, and, in fact, are very important resources for believers in their confrontation with the challenges of an increasingly secular world. They also resonate loudly to a church in crisis both internally and externally in its confrontation with that world. Ten authors, included among them some of the world’s most noted Newman scholars, as well as several emerging ones, address various aspects of Newman’s legacy on a host of subjects. These include the nature and challenges of faith both for believers and contemporary “nones” with no religious affiliations, an analysis of what and how we know things, particularly bearing on religious matters, the experience of conversions, the place and meaning of relationships in our search for God, especially those of family, home, and friendships, the indispensable role of the church in our drive for holiness, the nature and importance of education and its personal dimension, and the correct application of history in studying and learning from Newman’s legacy. Those who have questions and who think about these subjects, academics and non-academics alike, will find much to ponder in these essays.

Robert C. Christie is the President of the Newman Association of America, serving on its Board of Directors and as editor of its newsletter for twenty years. He has authored numerous articles, book chapters, and a stage play about John Henry Newman, titled Echoes from Home. His research focuses particularly on Newman’s conversion experiences and interpersonal relationships, and how they informed his theological and spiritual insights. Formerly Senior Professor of Philosophy and Religion at DeVry University in North Brunswick, USA, he has also taught theology at numerous Catholic colleges and universities, including Seton Hall and St. Peter’s Universities. He is the former Executive Director of the National Institute for Newman Studies, a founding member of that Institute’s Board of Trustees, and the former editor-in-chief of the Institute’s publication, the Newman Studies Journal. His doctoral dissertation was a study of the conversions of John Henry Newman, under the direction of Newman scholar Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. He also has twenty-five years’ experience in professional theatre, which he has employed as a major tool in communicating the legacy of John Henry Newman.