Life’s Purpose: Wisdom from John Henry Newman
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Overview
Drawing from both his sermons and writings, Life’s Purpose: Wisdom of John Henry Newman lets us reflect with one of the truly great men of the nineteenth century on a problem that continues to perplex humanity today.
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- Examines the teachings of John Henry Newman
- Provides time-tested spiritual guidance for living a Christian life
- “The Pillar of the Cloud,” from Verses on Various Occasions
- “Divine Calls,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
- “Remembrance of Past Mercies,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
- “Hope in God–Creator,” from Meditations and Devotions
- “God Is All in All,” from Meditations and Devotions
- From Essays Critical and Historical
- “Unreal Words,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
- “Contracted Views in Religion,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
- “The Strictness of the Law of Christ,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
- “Sincerity and Hypocrisy,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
- “Invisible Presence of Christ,” from Sermons Bearing on Subjects of the Day
- “The Invisible World,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
- “The Calls of Grace,” from Faith and Prejudice and Other Unpublished Sermons
- “Christian Repentance,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
- “Equanimity,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
- “Miracles No Remedy for Unbelief,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
- “Divine Calls,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
- “Christ Manifested in Remembrance,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons
- “The Infinite Perfection of God,” from Meditations and Devotions
- “The Providence of God,” from Meditations and Devotions
Top Highlights
“No, we are creatures; and, as being such, we have two duties, to be resigned and to be thankful.” (Page 8)
“Faith is, in its very nature, the acceptance of what our reason cannot reach, simply and absolutely upon testimony” (Page 19)
“Let us aim at meaning what we say, and saying what we mean” (Page 24)
“He is training His elect, one and all, to the one perfect knowledge and obedience of Christ; not, however, without their cooperation, but by means of calls which they are to obey, and which if they do not obey, they lose place, and fall behind in their heavenly course. He leads them forward from strength to strength, and from glory to glory, up the steps of the ladder whose top reaches to heaven. We pass from one state of knowledge to another; we are introduced into a higher region from a lower, by listening to Christ’s call and obeying it.” (Page 6)
“There are ten thousand ways of looking at this world, but only one right way” (Page 23)
John Henry Newman (1801–1890) was a priest and Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. His father was a banker and his mother’s family was French Huguenot. Newman was raised in a strict Calvinist home and received his primary education at the famous Ealing School. John Henry Newman graduated from Trinity College, Oxford in 1821 and was elected to a fellowship at Oriel College, Oxford in the following year. On June 13, 1824 he was ordained into the Anglican priesthood. From the early 1830s until 1845, Newman was a leading figure in the Oxford Movement, a group of Anglican priests and scholars from Oxford who sought to restore the rites of the Anglican church to their Apostolic roots in the Early Church. Between 1842 and 1845, during a time of solitude and the completion of Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, Newman underwent a process conversion to Roman Catholicism. Newman also published the Oxford Conservative Journal during this time period as a platform for retracting any negative remarks he previously assailed towards the Roman Church.
He was officially received into the Catholic Church on October 9, 1845. The conversion of John Henry Newman to Catholicism was the result of a life’s long struggle to reconcile the historic faith handed down from the Apostles with his own Anglican tradition. Frustrated with the errors inherent in both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, Newman abandoned his search for the via media (or, middle way) of Anglicanism and converted to the Roman Catholic Church. In 1848, Newman founded the Birmingham Oratory at Maryvale and began ministering to the Catholic population of the city. In 1851, the Bishops of Ireland elected to start a Catholic university in Dublin and they appointed Newman to be the founder and first rector of the institution. Maintaining his ministry at the Birmingham Oratory, Newman established what would become University College, Dublin. His Idea of a University was prepared for founding faculty of the university at Dublin. On May 12, 1879 Pope Leo XIII appointed Newman to the college of Cardinals. Cardinal Newman died on August 11, 1890. Cardinal Newman is currently under consideration by the Vatican for sainthood.