Newman's Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint

by John Cornwell

Book Overview

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'?

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441150846
• ISBN13: 9781441150844
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"