When I was at theological college we were encouraged to admire Newman inordinately. I remember studying some controversy he had with Charles Kingsley- something about the the wonderfulness of the Pope I should think. The party line was to swoon over the beauty of Newman's prose and the subtlety of his reasoning and to sneer at Kingsley as a mutton-chop-be-whiskered philistine. I'm afraid I never had the courage- in that super-heated atmosphere- to point out that Kingsley was, in fact, right.
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Date: 2004-07-10 11:51 am (UTC)I've always liked that title.
When I was at theological college we were encouraged to admire Newman inordinately. I remember studying some controversy he had with Charles Kingsley- something about the the wonderfulness of the Pope I should think. The party line was to swoon over the beauty of Newman's prose and the subtlety of his reasoning and to sneer at Kingsley as a mutton-chop-be-whiskered philistine. I'm afraid I never had the courage- in that super-heated atmosphere- to point out that Kingsley was, in fact, right.