Conversion Methodology and the Case of Cardinal Newman

Theological Studies

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 669-685

  Marlett, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a LYON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84994893479     PISSN: 00405639     EISSN: 21691304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004056399705800404     Document Type: Review

References (43)

1. John Henry Newman, Apologia pro Vita Sua (Garden City, N.Y.: Image-Doubleday, 1956) 317.
2. The Iron of Melancholy: Structures of Spiritual Conversion in American from the Puritan Conscience to Victorian Neurosis [Middletown, Conn.: Wes-leyan University, 1983] 48-49.
3. James W. Fowler, "Faith and the Structure of Meaning," in Toward Moral and Religious Maturity: The First International Conference on Moral and Religious Development, ed. Christiane Brusselsmans (Morristown, N.J.: Silver Burdett, 1980) 54.
4. Walter E. Conn, Christian Conversion: A Developmental Interpretation of Autonomy and Surrender (New York: Paulist, 1986) 10.
5. Lewis Rambo, Understanding Religious Conversion (New Haven: Yale University, 1993) 17.
6. Conn, Christian Conversion 25, 57.
7. William C. Placher has claimed that such theological models are based on an Enlightenment mind-set that erroneously presupposes its own universality (Unapologetic Theology: A Christian Voice in a Pluralistic Conversation [Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1989] 78-81).
8. Rambo, Understanding Religious Conversion 11-12.
9. "Overture: the New History, its Past and its Future," in New Perspectives on Historical Writing, ed. Peter Burke [University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University, 1992] 5.
10. Karl F. Morrison, Understanding Conversion (Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1992) xi-xii.
11. Several studies have traced this popularity. For the best insights on Newman, see Sheridan Gilley, Newman and His Age (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1990) 321-34.
12. On Day and Merton, see James Terrence Fisher, The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1989) 1-24, 206, 211.
13. To Promote, Defend, and Redeem: The Catholic Literary Revival and the Cultural Transformation of American Catholicism, 1920-1960 [New York: Greenwood, 1990] 65-75, 110, 152).
14. John D. Barbour, Versions of Deconversion: Autobiography and the Loss of Faith (Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1994) 5.
15. Alice Walker, The Color Purple (New York: Pocket-Simon, 1985, orig. ed. 1982) 202.
16. Barbour, Versions of Deconversions 4.
17. Philip Slater, The Pursuit of Loneliness (Boston: Beacon, 1970) 4.
18. Morrison, Understanding Conversion 8.
19. Barbour, Versions of Deconversion 8.
20. See Patrick Allitt, "American Women Converts and Catholic Intellectual Life," U.S. Catholic Historian 13 (Winter 1995) 57-79.
21. Maisie Ward, Young Mr. Newman (London: Sheed and Ward, 1948) 25.
22. Gilley, Newman and His Age 3.
23. Meriol Trevor, Newman 1: The Pillar of the Cloud (Garden City, N.Y.: Image-Doubleday, 1962) 248.
24. Ian Ker, John Henry Newman: A Biography (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1990) 170.
25. Gilley, Newman and His Age 233.
26. e 'An Unnatural State': Gender, Terversion', and Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua," Victorian Studies 35 [1992] 359-83).
27. Narratol-ogy: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, transi. Christine van Boheemen [Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985] 5, 8.
28. Frederick Oakeley, Historical Notes on the Tractarian Movement (A.D. 1833-1845) (London, 1865) 4-6.
29. Kenneth Parker, "The Role of Estrangement in Conversion: The Case of John Henry Newman," in Christianity and the Stranger: Historical Essays, ed. Francis W. Nichols (Atlanta: Scholars, 1995) 169-201.
30. Newman, Apologia 238-39, 241-42, 295.
31. Morrison, Understanding Conversion 26.
32. Newman, Apologia 124.
33. Barbour, Versions of Deconversion 25.
34. Linda Peterson, Victorian Autobiography: The Tradition of Self-Interpretation (New Haven: Yale University, 1986) 100-1.
35. Thomas Scott, The Force of Truth, 8th ed. (London, 1808) 72.
36. Newman, Apologia 127-28.
37. Barbour, Versions of Deconversion 31.
38. Barbour, Versions of Deconversion 31-32.
39. Geoffrey Rowell, The Vision Glorious: Themes and Personalities of the Catholic Revival in Anglicanism (Oxford: Oxford University, 1983)
40. See Placid Murray's introduction to Newman the Oratorian: His Unpublished Oratory Papers (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1969) 3-129.
41. Allen Tate, "The Maimed Man," in Collected Poems 1919-1976 (N.Y.: Giroux, Farrar Strauss, 1978) 129-30.
42. Peter A. Huff, Allen Tate and the Catholic Literary Revival: Trace of the Fugitive Gods (New York: Paulist, 1996).
43. Newman, Apologia 315.