Newman's Anglican Georgic
Subtitle: Parochial Sermons
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780820470924
Subjects: Christian Ministry - Preaching; Christian Theology - General; History; Sermons - Christian; Religion; Religion - Worship - Preaching; 1801-1890; 1801-1890.; 19th century; Church of England; History and criticism; Newman, John Henry,; Parochial sermons; Sermons; Sermons, English
Description: "Far from being a random collection, the six volumes of Anglican sermons that John Henry Newman published between 1834 and 1842 were selected and thematically arranged to create a unified literary structure, one with the form and function of a prose georgic. Like the classical exemplars composed by Hesiod, Lucretius, and Virgil, Newman's Anglican Georgic offers moral reflections on human conduct in light of human possibility and addresses the existence, intervention, and benign or hostile will of the gods. As this book shows, Newman is equally concerned to embolden his audience for the practice of authentic Christianity and to warn them against the age's schismatic preference for private religious emotion over revealed doctrine."--BOOK JACKET.