Apologia pro Vita Sua
John Henry Newman’s history of his own religious opinions from childhood to his reception into the Catholic Church in 1845, written twenty years later in answer to a charge of dishonesty. It quotes his letters of the time.
John Henry Newman wrote the Apologia in 1864. His preface explains that a writer in a magazine had accused him by name of thinking lightly of truthfulness and had imputed the same to the Catholic priesthood. The book is an account of the Oxford Movement by the man at its centre, and it reproduces many of his own letters with their dates.
It was written two decades after the events, by a Catholic looking back on his Anglican years, and it is a defence. For what Newman did and wrote at the time, the letters he quotes are contemporary evidence; for what the events meant, the book gives his judgment in 1864.
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- 14 July 1833, firm date