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Cornwell John <1940-> |
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Newman's unquiet grave : the reluctant saint / / by John Cornwell |
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London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , [2010] |
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©2010 |
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1-4411-6901-6 |
1-282-87578-7 |
9786612875786 |
1-4411-7213-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (295 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents; Preface; Prologue; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes to the Chapters (and the Abbreviations used); Index |
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John Henry Newman was the most eminent English-speaking Christian thinker and writer of the past two hundred years. James Joyce hailed him the 'greatest' prose stylist of the Victorian age. A problematic campaign to canonise Newman started fifty years ago. After many delays John Paul II declared him a 'Venerable'. Then Pope Benedict XVI, a keen student of Newman's works, pressed for his beatification. But was Newman a 'Saint'? In Newman's Unquiet Grave John Cornwell (author of A Thief in the Night and Hitler's Pope ) tells the story of the chequered attempts to establish Newman's sanctity agai |
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