Newman and Heresy
The Anglican Years

This 1991 study links Newman's historical researches to the teeming world of early nineteenth-century controversy.

Stephen Thomas (Author)

9780521522137, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 October 2003

352 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.546 kg

' … weightier and more concentrated … carefully researched'. The Expository Times

This 1991 book describes the close relationship between the historical researches and the teeming world of early nineteenth-century controversy. The setting is Oxford between the 1820s and the 1840s, when Newman made his ambitious and doomed attempt to re-invent the 'catholicity' of the Church of England. The author shows that in Newman's battle against the Protestant wing of the Church of England, and the (to him) even more sinister 'liberals', he saw parallels with the struggle of the early Church against heresy. Newman's 'rediscovery' of ancient Patristic writers and heretics was thus part of a strategy to revive Catholicism within the Anglican Church. Dr Thomas shows how Newman's eventual conversion to Rome in 1845 may be understood as a change in his perception of heresy, and a realisation of the applicability of his own polemic to his Anglican self.

Introduction
Part I. Defence - Arianism and the Church-State Crisis: 1. Heresy and orthodoxy in the evangelical period
2. The Arians of the fourth century and its background
3. Newman's Tractarian rhetoric 1833–7
4. Conclusion: rhetoric and politics
Part II. Attack - Sebellianism and Appolinarianism: Liberalism Unmasked: 5. New directions: the mid-1830s
6. Patristic research: the edition of Dionysius of Alexandria
7. The Hampden controversy
8. Blanco White
9. Apollinarianism
10. Tract 73: on the introduction of rationalist principles into revealed religion
11. The Elucidations on Hampden
12. Apollinarianism revisited
13. Sabellianism revisited
14. Heresy, typology and the encodement of experience
Part III. Retreat and Realignment - Monophysitism and the Collapse of the Via Media: 15. Construction
16. Collapse
17. Rhetoric refurbished
Conclusion
References
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: History of religion [HRAX]