Newman and History

There are essays here on Newman and Edward Gibbon; Newman and the Whig historians; and Newman and the law, especially the infamous Achilli trial of 1851, which pitted him agains the Protestant Establishment still smarting from the restoration of the Cathoiic hierarchy - disparagingly referred to by many Victorians as "papal aggression". Readers interest in Newman's history-laden conversion will enjoy "Newman, C S Lewis, and the Reality of Conversion"; those interested in Tractarianism will find a piece that looks at what became of the Oxford Movement after newman abandoned the via media and seceded to Rome. The chapter entitiled "Newman and the Liberals" charts his life-long critique of liberalism. Edward Short also examines Newman's letters and writings as a unified whole, and concludes with a far-ranging essay "Newman, History and Hagiography", which shows how Newman was attuned to and appreciative of the faith of ordinary Catholics.

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