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Ker, Ian Turnbull was born on August 30, 1942 in Naini Tal, India. Son of Charles Murray and Joan May (Knox) Ker.
(The first comprehensive biography of the great religious ...)
The first comprehensive biography of the great religious leader John Henry Newman (1801-90), this compelling and well-written volume draws on a number of published and unpublished sources to examine his extraordinarily varied life and career. Ker stresses the complexity of Newman's character and the range of his achievement as major prose writer, dominant religious leader who anticipated the Second Vatican Council and the modern ecumenical movement, and universal Christian thinker, whose significance transcends his culture and time.
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This text presents a thorough discussion of the six principal writers of the Catholic revival in English literature - Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene and Waugh. Beginning with Newman's conversion in 1845 and ending with Waugh's completion of the trilogy "The Sword of Honour" in 1961, it explores how Catholicism shaped the work of these six prominent writers. John Henry Newman claimed in "The Idea of a University" that post-Reformation English literature was overwhelmingly Protestant and that there was no prospect of a Catholic body of literature. Describing this claim as "happily lacking in prescience", Ian Ker argues that Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene and Waugh succeeded in producing a substantial body of literature written by Catholics who wrote as "Catholics". These Catholic revivalists were not so much influenced by traditional Catholic themes of guilt, sin and ceremony, as they were attracted to unexpected facets of Catholicism. The idea of a Catholic priest as a craftsman is a recurring motif, as is the celebration of the ordinariness and objectivity of Catholicism. Ker's reading of these six major writers should appeal to anyone with an interest in 19th- and 20th-century English literature, or the relation between literature and theology.
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This full-length life of John Henry Newman is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the thinker and writer. It draws extensively on material from Newman's letters and papers. Newman's character is revealed in its complexity and contrasts: the legendary sadness and sensitivity are placed in their proper perspective by being set against his no less striking qualities of exuberance, humour, and toughness. This book attempts to do justice to the fullness of Newman's achievement and genius: the Victorian 'prophet' or 'sage' who ranks among the major English prose writers; the dominating religious figure of the nineteenth century, who can now be recognised as the forerunner of the Second Vatican Council and the modern ecumenical movement; and finally, the universal Christian thinker, whose significance transcends his culture and time.
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Ker, Ian Turnbull was born on August 30, 1942 in Naini Tal, India. Son of Charles Murray and Joan May (Knox) Ker.
Bachelor, Balliol College, Oxford, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1969. Doctor of Letters, Leicester University, England, 2005.
Lecturer in English literature University York, 1969-1974. Endowed chair in theology and philosphy University St. Thomas, Minnesota, 1987-1989. Tutor in theology Campion Hall, Oxford, since 1996.
Visiting professor humanities Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio, 1993. Catholic chaplain Southampton University, England, 1982-1987. Senior Catholic chaplain Oxford University, 1989-1990.
Dean graduate research Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, 1991-1996. Fellow and tutor St. Benet Hall, Oxford, since 2005.
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(This text presents a thorough discussion of the six princ...)
(This full-length life of John Henry Newman is the first c...)
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