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BLESSED JOHN HENRY NEWMAN SELECTION [3 BOOKS] John Henry Newman C.O., also referred to as Cardinal Newman, John Henry Cardinal Newman, and Blessed John Henry Newman, was a Catholic cardinal and theologian who was a very important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s.Originally an evangelical Oxford University academic and priest in the Church of England, Newman then became drawn to the high-church tradition of Anglicanism. He became known as a leader of, and an able polemicist for, the Oxford Movement, an influential and controversial grouping of Anglicans who wished to return to the Church of England many Catholic beliefs and liturgical rituals from before the English Reformation. —BOOKS— THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA AN ESSAY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE PUBLISHER: AETERNA PRESS