Newman revolutionized Christianity through his magisterial explorations of the sources of theological authority and truth, the unity of the Church, conscience and religion, and the roles of dissent and consent.
Although he crossed the bridge to the Catholic side, most Anglicans who learned from Newman about the catholic roots of their Church remained on the Anglican side of the bridge.
In this clearly written book, T.L. Holtzen explains why the complicated debates about the doctrine of justification before and after the Reformation still matter today.
By Jonathan Mitchican
One of the biggest intellectual challenges to my journey into full communion with the Catholic Church was the idea that doctrine develops....
Grace and Incarnation
The Oxford Movement’s Shaping of the Character of Modern Anglicanism
By Bruce D. Griffith with Jason R. Radcliff
Pickwick, pp. 216, $26
Review by Chip...
The canonization of John Henry Newman this year provides an opportunity for Anglicans to look back on his legacy in our own church. Newman was a priest of the Church of England before he was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. In many ways, his contribution to both Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism is a legacy shared between the traditions.
