Welcome back to the Word on Fire show.

I'm Dr. Matthew Patrusick, Senior Director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the

Word on Fire show. Thank you, as always, for joining us.

Friends, in honor of St. John Henry Newman's recently being named a doctor of the church,

we're bringing you Bishop Barron's entire Word on Fire Institute lecture series on John Henry Newman,

right here for free.

Throughout these next several weeks, we'll dive deep into one of Bishop Barron's spiritual and intellectual heroes.

St. John Henry Newman. As always, enjoy.

So in the second lecture, we're picking up with our study of the Apologia Provitasua,

which is a survey of Newman's life, largely the life of his mind. So you're not going to get a lot

of psychological detail. You're going to get the story of how his mind develop.

So I talked last time we came up to the decisive conversion moment when Newman's just a kid of 15.

But a lot of his spirituality and intellectuality and intellectuality was given to him really at that moment.

I want to go now to June of 1817, Newman's all of 16,

but he comes to Oxford University.

Now, it's hard to overstate the importance of Oxford

for John Henry Newman. Think of it what Paris was for Thomas Aquinas.

It was the city that most shaped him. I find very moving to think,

you know, Duns Scotus comes to Oxford in the 13th and 14th century. Evil and Wall will come to

Oxford 100 years after Newman. Newman's there in 1817, these great figures that were shaped by

this greatest of English universities.

Newman took in the style, the substance, the panache of the place, and it shaped him at almost every level.

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