WOF 155: Understanding Newman's Great Autobiography (Part 2 of 2)

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🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 29 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 second 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.
0:10.7	We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and we're excited to share with you the second
0:15.0	part of a series that we began in the last episode where Bishop Baron is speaking on
0:20.0	one of John Henry Newman's classic books. It's his spiritual autobiography titled The
0:26.2	Apologia Pro Vita Sua. Last week we heard the first half of Bishop Baron's talk on that
0:31.9	book and today we're going to wrap up with the second half. Before we get there though,
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1:28.6	to Word on Fire today. We count on your support and we're so grateful for you. So again, I'm
1:34.3	going to turn it over to Bishop Baron and he's going to share the second half of his talk
1:38.4	on John Henry Newman's book The Apologia Pro Vita Sua. Enjoy.
1:43.3	Yeah, here's something I already mentioned it, but how are Anglicanism and Catholicism
1:52.5	identical, dogma, sacramentality? Where do they differ? Here's a quote, Rome substitutes
1:59.1	the authority of a church for that of antiquity. And that's what he saw at this point in his
2:03.2	life as the problem. You've got to listen to Augustine and Chris's system in Jerome
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