Accessibly presented in four comprehensive parts, this Handbook offers an important resource to critical and appreciative exploration of the person, writings, controversies, and legacy of Newman.

• List of contributors


• Abbreviations


• Introduction


• Part I. Context for his Writings


• 1: Peter B. Nockles: The Oxford Movement


• 2: Keith Beaumont: The Oratory


• 3: Colin Barr: Ireland


• 4: Ann Margaret Schellenberg Richardson: Brothers


• 5: Joshua King: Print Culture


• Part II. Influences on Newman


• 6: Benjamin J. King: The Church Fathers


• 7: Jane Garnett: Joseph Butler


• 8: Frederick D. Aquino: The British Naturalist Tradition


• 9: Gareth Atkins: Evangelicals


• 10: Geertjan Zuijdwegt: Richard Whately


• Part III. Themes of his Writings


• a) Theological


• 11: Eamon Duffy: The Anglican Parish Sermons


• 12: Charles Hefling: Justification: The Doctrine, The Lectures, and Tract 90


• 13: Benjamin J. King: Sensus Fidelium


• 14: C. Michael Shea: Doctrinal Development


• 15: William J. Abraham: Revelation


• 16: C. Michael Shea: Ecclesiology: The Polycentric Church


• 17: Ryan J. Marr: Infallibility


• 18: Mark D. Chapman: Ecumenism, Mariology, and the Papacy


• b) Philosophical and Literary


• 19: Frederick D. Aquino: Epistemology


• 20: Colin Barr and Simon Skinner: Political and Social Thought


• 21: M. Katherine Tillman: Philosophy of Education


• 22: Geertjan Zuijdwegt and Terrence Merrigan: Conscience


• 23: Jan Marten Ivo Klaver: The Apologia


• 24: Mary C. Frank: The Literary Stylist


• Part IV. Ongoing Significance


• 25: Mark McInroy: Catholic Theological Receptions


• 26: Geoffrey Rowell: Anglican Theological Receptions


• 27: John Sullivan: The University


• 28: Kenneth Parker: Historiography


• 29: Stephen Prickett: Literary Legacy

Frederick Aquino is Professor of Theology and Philosophy at the Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University, working as a philosophical and systematic theologian. He specializes in religious epistemology, the epistemology of theology, John Henry Newman, and Maximus the Confessor. His publications include Receptions of Newman (with Benjamin J. King; 2015) and The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology (with William J. Abraham; 2017).
Benjamin J. King is the Professor of Christian History at the School of Theology, University of the South, Tennessee. He specializes in nineteenth-century history and theology. He is the author of Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers: Shaping Doctrine in Nineteenth-Century England (2009).