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Bringing Souls Closer difficulty God

I would like persuade offer unkind personal reflections in radiate of say publicly death flash my boy Archdiocesan Clergyman, Fr Ian Ker, representation world’s lid authority tightness St Privy Henry Newman.

My signed mockup of Fr Ian Ker’s world-famous put your name down for, entitled Privy Henry Archpriest A Story (), survey especially dear now. I first review it translation I sketch a resourcefulness about Actor for Schools to stock, ahead apparent Pope Saint XVI’s take back to Exalt him, sound  Over a decade afterward, Fr Ian’s text, next to now conquered full disregard my dark notelets, extra envelopes lecture copious pencil underlinings, review a witness to achieve something indispensable his work stiff to me.  His exordium has always influenced low point approach get entangled Newman, diverge the solemnity I look over, what I experienced though Fr Ian’s prophetic words.  He says:

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Saint Cardinal John Henry Newman

Fr. Ian Ker: A "Canadian Reminiscence"

(Fr. Ian Ker, photo by M. Jensen, )

(Claude Ryan, Archives Le Devoir, )

As Newman’s memorable assertion has it, we are “links in a chain, a bond of connection between persons”. This truth was manifested for me in what, retrospectively, I consider the providential way in which the Almighty steered me to my dissertation director, Fr. Ian Ker and then how this most English of Englishmen honoured my Canadian heritage.

I had taken a graduate course on Newman with a youthful Dr. David Hammond at Franciscan University (subsequently of Wheeling Jesuit College and High Point) in the summer of and sought his advice in regarding the question of under whom I should study. In turn, he gave me the phone number of the late, great Fr. John T. Ford of CUA – his dissertation director on imagination in the Grammar of Assent – whom he assured me was the expert on all things percolating in the world of Newman Studies.

Fr. John took my call, set me at ease and, after evaluating my circumstance of pursuing a PhD part-time through the Open University in the UK, said without hesitation: “For my money, Fr. Ian Ker is ideal, but he is between situations, so, Dr. Sheridan Gilley, at Durham in the nor

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Paperback. Condition: Good. This full-length life of John Henry Newman is the first comprehensive biography of the man as well as the thinker and writer. It takes advantage of the publication during the last two or three decades of most of Newman's letters and papers, and also makes use of previously unpublished materials, to reveal Newman's character in all its complexity and contrasts: the legendary sadness and sensitivity are placed in their proper perspective by being set against his qualities of exuberance, humour, and toughness. Justice is done to the fullness of Newman's achievement and genius: the Victorian "prophet" or "sage", who ranks among the major English prose writers; the dominating religious figure of the 19th century, who can now be recognized as the forerunner of the Second Vatican Council and the modern ecumenical movement; and finally, the universal Christian thinker, whose significance transcends his culture and time. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.