Title: Loss and Gain
Description: This novel about a young man's intellectual and spiritual development was the first work John Henry Newman wrote after entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. The story describes the perplexing questions and doubts Charles Reding experiences while attending Oxford. Though intending to avoid the religious controversies that are being heatedly debated at the university, Reding ends up leaving the Church of England and becoming a Catholic. A former Anglican clergyman who was later named a Catholic cardinal, Newman wrote this autobiographical novel to illustrate his own reasons for embracing Catholicism.
Subjects: Church history, Fiction, Conversion, Catholic Church, Oxford movement, Cardinals, Converts, Catholic converts, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Newman, john henry, 1801-1890, Faith, History, Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
Places: Tunisia
People: John Henry Newman (1801-1890), John Bernard Fitzpatrick (1812-1866)
Time periods: Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600