Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert

by John Henry Newman

Overview

LOSS AND GAIN may well be the easiest and best place for non-specialists to begin with myriad-minded John Henry Newman. It is a novel about Oxford and fleshes out Newman's belief that students form their deepest convictions from their discussions with one another and not from teachers. It is also a novel very much like a Platonic dialog that presents and wrestles with various theories of why intelligent young men are either content to stay with their inherited personal faith or are moved to seek another. This novel mirrors Newman's experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849029674
Publisher:	Benediction Classics
Publication date:	08/25/2009
Pages:	358
Sales rank:	996,132
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Sheridan Gilley is an Emeritus Reader in Theology at the University of Durham, an Honorary Fellow in Catholic History in its Catholic Studies Centre, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and past president (2010–2011) of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Author of many books, many on Newman, he has published more than two hundred articles on modern English and Irish and Christian history.