Conscience & conversion in Newman

During and since the Second Vatican Council both liberal and conservative Catholics have claimed Newman as their own. But his life and work resist any easy labeling. Conscience & Conversion reveals wihtin Newman's many facers a singleness of self, a self driven through a series of far reaching conversions by the creative force of a dynamic, unifying conscience. It analyzes the complexities of Newman's famous move from oxford of Romane, his ecclesial conversion from the Anglican Church to the Roman Church, and suggests a new Interpretion of this move in terms of a distinction between negative…