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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814603203321

Autore

Cornwell John <1940->

Titolo

Newman's unquiet grave : the reluctant saint / / by John Cornwell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-4411-6901-6

1-282-87578-7

9786612875786

1-4411-7213-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Disciplina

282.092

Soggetti

Cardinals - Great Britain

Theologians - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Prologue; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes to the Chapters (and the Abbreviations used); Index

Sommario/riassunto

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