Books

Early Newman Redivivus

January 29, 2024 Edward Short 2

In his sprightly tour d’horizon, The Victorian Age in Literature (1911), G.K. Chesterton remarked that “the great Victorian rationalism” had “succeeded in doing a damage to religion” because it had “driven it entirely into the […]

Essay

Newman the Saint

October 12, 2019 Edward Short 2

To speak of the saint in John Henry Newman is to speak of a man who gave his entire adult life not only to embodying heroic virtue himself but guiding others to embody it as […]