{"product_id":"loss-and-gain-the-story-of-a-convert-hardcover","title":"Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Henry Cardinal Newman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSheridan Gilley\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt may seem surprising to discover that a Catholic cardinal was a novelist, and Newman advanced this as an obstacle to his own canonization: \"Saints are not literary men,\" he wrote, \"they do not love the classics, they do not write Tales.\" He was only fit \"to black the saints' shoes--if Saint Philip uses blacking, in heaven.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe background to \u003ci\u003eLoss and Gain\u003c\/i\u003e was a controversial one. Newman wrote the book in part to provide a title for publication by James Burns, of the later celebrated firm of Burns and Oates, who had lost his stable of Anglican authors by converting in 1847 to Catholicism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn understanding of the novel requires some knowledge of its Oxford background, of the university setting, which was compared in the fierceness of its loyalties by Newman's friend Richard Church to a Renaissance Italian city, implying an assassin with a stiletto round every corner. In short, there is a sense in which, in spite of its fictional character, \u003ci\u003eLoss and Gain\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of controversy, full of echoes of old battles over whether the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion and the \u003ci\u003eBook of Common Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e should be interpreted in a \"Catholic\" or a \"Protestant\" sense. It is a response, like Newman's other works, to a challenge, and so its hero, Charles Reding, as a student in Oxford, passes through the hands of the representatives of a number of Anglican parties and schools of theology before resolving his doubts in Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheridan Gilley is an Emeritus Reader in Theology at the University of Durham, an Honorary Fellow in Catholic History in its Catholic Studies Centre, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and past president (2010-2011) of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Author of many books, many on Newman, he has published more than two hundred articles on modern English and Irish and Christian history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 500\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 7.5 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376864805042,"sku":"9780268036133","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/d6d86acbb10a3a6b5b3177c745f364aa.webp?v=1777711176","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/loss-and-gain-the-story-of-a-convert-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}