Newman and his Critics

<p>Criticism is often received as a sharp sword enraging and embittering the recipient. Yet it may also prompt an honest re-examination and a humble defense of one's writings. <em>Newman and his Critics</em> Edward Short's masterful account of John Henry Newman's dealings with hiscritics demonstrates that Newman's charity and love of the truth brought forth magnificent writings that are instructive and convincing free of acrimony and acerbity. We have much to learn from Newman's truly Christian way of engaging with those who disagreed with him.<strong>THE REV. GERALD E. MURRAY</strong> Author of <em>Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crises Facing the Catholic Church and Society</em> </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Edward Short is the author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Newman and his Contemporaries</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Newman and his Family </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>both now reissued by Gracewing in uniform editions to the present volume as well as </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Newman and History.</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> The first volume of his collected essays and reviews as </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Adventures in the Book Pages</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> was acclaimed by the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Catholic Herald</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> as wise witty and entertaining. His critical edition of the first volume of Newman's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Difficulties of |Anglicans</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> introduces and annotates the lectures that Newman delivered in London in 1850 which taken together constitute a dress rehearsal for his </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Apologia Pro Vita Sua</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>. Edward Short Short also edited the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Saint Mary's Book of Christian Verse </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>(2022) which Prof. Emma Mason of Warwick University called a mesmerizingly beautiful anthology. His latest collection </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>What the Bells Sang: Essays and Reviews</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> (2023) includes far-ranging pieces on poets novelists moralists and historians.  Lord Andrew Roberts Churchill's biographer called the book beautifully written brave and wise. </span></p>