John Henry Newman

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JHN 's many writings on theology and education were an important component of his career as Victorian religious seeker, teacher, and man of letters.

Milestones

21 February 1801

JHN , future religious leader and theologian, was born in London, at 80 Old Broad Street.
Ker, Ian. John Henry Newman: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1988.
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September 1833

JHN , Richard Hurrell Froude , Edward Bouverie Pusey , and others began anonymously publishing their series Tracts for the Times, as a statement of principles for the Tractarian , or Oxford Movement.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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February 1841

The single most controversial and last of the Tracts for the Times (Tract XC or 90, anonymously authored by JHN ) was published; it argued that the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England could be reconciled with Roman Catholic theology.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
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Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.

21 April-16 June 1864

JHN 's Apologia pro vita sua first appeared as a series of pamphlets.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Ker, Ian. John Henry Newman: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1988.
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11 August 1890

JHN , Roman Catholic theologian, died of pneumonia in his eighty-ninth year, at the Oratory in Birmingham.
Ker, Ian. John Henry Newman: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1988.
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Biography

Birth and Family

21 February 1801

JHN , future religious leader and theologian, was born in London, at 80 Old Broad Street.
Ker, Ian. John Henry Newman: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1988.
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