Event tomorrow for Newman and His Contemporaries

Author Edward Short will have a book signing for Newman and His Contemporaries at

Pauline Books & Media
64 West 38th Street
New York City

Thursday, February 16th at 7:30pm


Praise for Newman and His Contemporaries:

"Edward Short's Newman and His Contemporaries is that most intellectually satisfying phenomenon; a deeply-researched, beautifully-written and important book that answers all the questions it sets itself, and all that any reader may also ask. The Oxford Movement might not engage many people today, but in Victorian England it was an absolutely revolutionary concept and the author blows pure oxygen onto its almost-dead embers in recreating its crises and controversies. Moreover, the reader doesn't need to know anything about Tractarianism to enjoy the perceptive and witty essays covering the Cardinal's relations with such figures as Gladstone, Thackeray, Arnold, Clough and the Froudes."--Andrew Roberts, BBC History Magazine Books of the Year 2011

"Another Newman book? Well, yes, and a particularly fine one that explores Newman's relationships with the great ecclesiastical, literary, political, and journalistic figures of his time. Edward Short's close reading of Newman's vast correspondence also demonstrates just how many of our post-Vatican II arguments were anticipated in the 19th century among Newman and his interlocutors."--George Weigel, Christmas Books for 2011

"Newman and his Contemporaries sets out to place Newman in context and in dialogue with a range of his contemporaries. Newman famously said that 'a man's life is in his letters.' The 30 or so volumes of Newman's Letters and Diaries provide a significant quarry for Short's exploration. . . . In its rich citations from Newman's correspondence, Newman and His Contemporaries reminds us of Newman's skill as a pastoral theologian and theological apologist. . . . Newman saw that there were hard questions for Anglicans to answer, with which we need to continue to wrestle--about authority, about the right discernment of development, and, fundamentally, about the nature of the Church. If this book provokes us to do this, then it will have achieved one of its purposes."--Geoffrey Rowell, Church Times

"This book . . . with its rich cast-list and broad sweep, will be a valued addition to the libraries not only of the Newmaniacs but of anyone who takes the 19th century seriously and who wishes to explore its often alien ideas and characters."--A. N. Wilson, The Spectator


See you there!