WOF 154: Who was John Henry Newman? (Part 1 of 2)

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🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

John Henry Newman’s spiritual autobiography, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, is widely recognized as a classic of religious literature. Chronicling his conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism, it explores the arguments and discoveries that convinced the Anglican churchman to cross the Tiber. In today’s episode, we share the first half of talk Bishop Barron gave on the book and its influence.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vat the host and the content director
0:09.3	here at Word on Fire. Bishop Aaron is taking a little bit of a well-deserved break from
0:14.7	recording episodes. So the next couple episodes instead of having him live in studio, we're
0:19.9	going to share some talks that he gave eight years ago at the Pontifical North American
0:24.4	College in Rome. These talks focused on the writings of John Henry Newman. Now, if you've been
0:31.2	following Word on Fire for the over the years, you know how important John Henry Newman is to our
0:36.2	entire movement. He's one of our key and intellectual heroes. He's a great spiritual intercessor and he
0:42.0	remains a constant source of inspiration. In these talks, Bishop Aaron focused on three of Newman's
0:49.1	most important books. The first one is Newman's spiritual autobiography titled Apologia
0:55.7	Provita Sua. The second is Newman's Grammar of Ascent. And the third is Newman's essay on the
1:02.9	development of Christian doctrine, which by the way, you can get in a beautiful hardcover edition
1:08.7	through our Word on Fire classics line of books. Just go to w-o-f-classics.com to pick that up.
1:15.6	Before we share with you the first talk from this series, though, I got a request for you.
1:19.9	Over this past year in 2018, we've released all sorts of free resources, including thousands of
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1:49.8	of this media. Now, if you've been helped over the past year by Bishop Aaron's work and the work
1:54.8	of his Word on Fire team, can I make a request? Can you please make a donation to Word on Fire as we
2:01.2	near the end of this year? Just go to Word on Fire show.com slash giving, Word on Fire show.com slash
2:09.0	giving, and make a donation to our nonprofit ministry. The great part about Word on Fire being a
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