David B. McLoughlin

John Henry Newman and His Age

History & Biography

“In John Henry Newman and His Age, Owen Cummings provides us with a fine and lucid account of the complex framework of nineteenth-century European social, political, and ecclesiastical changes and challenges. With this aid we are better able to understand Newman and the key figures, friends and opponents, who influence him and who he in turn influences. This helps clarify the momentous decisions he came to and the key relationships which helped forge his complex, and in Cummings’ telling, attractive character. The author is generous in his citing of the full range of Newman biographers and commentators. The sheer range and depth of their comments enables Cummings to reveal just why Newman remains so fascinating to those who come after him.”