Newman's unquiet grave : the reluctant saint / by John Cornwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cornwell, John, 1940- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890.

Newman, John Henry.

Cardinals--Great Britain--Biography.

Cardinals.

Theologians--Great Britain--Biography.

Theologians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John Henry Newman was the most eminent English-speaking Christian thinker and writer of the past two hundred years. James Joyce hailed him the 'greatest' prose stylist of the Victorian age. A problematic campaign to canonise Newman started fifty years ago. After many delays John Paul II declared him a 'Venerable'. Then Pope Benedict XVI, a keen student of Newman's works, pressed for his beatification. But was Newman a 'Saint'? In Newman's Unquiet Grave John Cornwell (author of A Thief in the Night and Hitler's Pope ) tells the story of the chequered attempts to establish Newman's sanctity agai

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Prologue; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes to the Chapters (and the Abbreviations used); Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4411-6901-6

1-282-87578-7

9786612875786

1-4411-7213-0

OCLC:

676697521