TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newman,John Henry
TI  - Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert 
T2  - The Works of Cardinal John Henry Newman Birmingham Oratory Millennium Edition
SN  - 9780268036133 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PR5107 .L67 2014
U1  - E99 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Notre Dame
PB  - Gracewing
KW  - University of Oxford
KW  - Students
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Anglican Communion
KW  - England
KW  - Conversion
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Christian fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - "First published in 1848."; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "It may seem surprising to discover that a Catholic cardinal was a novelist, and Newman advanced this as an obstacle to his own canonization: "Saints are not literary men," he wrote, "they do not love the classics, they do not write Tales." He was only fit "to black the saints' shoes--if Saint Philip uses blacking, in heaven." The background to Loss and Gain was a controversial one. Newman wrote the book in part to provide a title for publication by James Burns, of the later celebrated firm of Burns and Oates, who had lost his stable of Anglican authors by converting in 1847 to Catholicism. An understanding of the novel requires some knowledge of its Oxford background, of the university setting, which was compared in the fierceness of its loyalties by Newman's friend Richard Church to a Renaissance Italian city, implying an assassin with a stiletto round every corner. In short, there is a sense in which, in spite of its fictional character, Loss and Gain is a work of controversy, full of echoes of old battles over whether the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion and the Book of Common Prayer should be interpreted in a "Catholic" or a "Protestant" sense. It is a response, like Newman's other works, to a challenge, and so its hero, Charles Reding, as a student in Oxford, passes through the hands of the representatives of a number of Anglican parties and schools of theology before resolving his doubts in Rome" --
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