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Title: 'Twixt the old and the new; a study in the life and times of John Henry, Cardinal Newman
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bloss, William Escott
Subjects: Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890 Great Britain -- Church history 19th century
Publisher: London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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was spiritual; their main object was neitherthe revival of certain doctrines about the Church,nor the retention of her established position with itsaccompanying privileges—these at the best weremeans to an end. These men were inspired by anobler motive; they wanted to increase the power andefficiency of the Church in her warfare against theexisting evils which disgraced popular Christianity,and to meet the forces of unbelief which threatenedthe integrity of the Divine revelation which theChurch was commissioned to proclaim to all mankind. (iii.) The leader and inspirer of this movement wasJohn Keble (1792-1866), a name no one can mentionwithout feelings of deepest reverence. His was alife of absolute sincerity, intense earnestness, genuinedevotion, and, above all, of deep spirituality.His career at Oxford had been marked with ex-ceptional brilliance; he had carried off almosteverything the University could give in the wayof distinction; but the force of his wonderful* Church, p. 30.
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JoHX Kkbli:. .Ifter Ihc f^iiiiitiiii; In G. hicJnuinid, r.a. To face p. oo.) JOHN HENRY NEWMAN 9I influence lay in that personal character, which wonthe affection of his disciples and commended thedoctrines he taught. When Newman became inti-mate with him, he had, as we have seen, arrived ata crisis in his religious experience. Intellectualismhad not only starved his emotional nature, but hadrendered impossible his return to the EvangelicalParty, which in the earlier part of his life hadministered to his spiritual needs. He was standingat the parting of the ways. May it not be the casethat the warmth and reality of Kebles Christianitycontributed more than any other cause to hastenNewmans decision, and to lead him to become one ofthe most active pioneers of this school of Churchmen ? VI. Up to the present we have tried to trace thedevelopment of Newmans religious opinions, andto describe the nature and the strength of thefonnative influences which contributed to thegrowth of his person

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