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The Eirenics of John Henry Newman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

Vincent Ferrer Blehl S. J.
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David Brown (1803–97), a member of the Free Church of Scotland, Professor of Apologetics, Exegesis of the Gospels and Church History at the Free Church College, Aberdeen, was from 1876 to 1885 Principal of his college. A correspondence with Newman began when Brown sent Newman a copy of his work, Life of the Late John Duncan, LL.D., (Edinburgh, 1872). In a letter of 7 June 1872 to Newman, he remarked that the last chapter of the Grammar of Assent met some of Duncan's difficulties, and added, ‘towards you I feel as if in the light of such teaching I were at home, in the blessed Communion of Saints which transcends every earthly separation.’ This tone was maintained in Brown's subsequent letter, 2 October of the same year, which concluded with the words, ‘With esteem … I remain yours in bonds transcending every earthly separation.’

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British Catholic History , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , October 1996 , pp. 219 - 227
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1996

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Notes

1 11 January 1873, Letters and diaries of John Henry Newman, Oxford, XXVI, pp. 232–33.Google Scholar

2 Blaikie, W. G., David Brown … a Memoir, London, 1898, p. 240.Google Scholar

3 Blaikie, pp. 242–43.

4 ibidem.

5 Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, end of chapter LIV.

6 29 July 1861 to Bittleston, LD XX, 17–19; Meriol, Trevor, Light in Winter, London, 1962, pp. 241–43.Google Scholar

7 Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman during his Life in the English Church, 2 vols. London, 1891.Google Scholar

8 The evangelicals described various stages of the conversion experience: ‘conviction of sin, terror, despair, news of the free and full salvation, apprehension of Christ, sense of pardon, assurance of salvation, joy and peace, and so on to final perseverance.’ (Autobiographical Writings, Oxford, 1956, p. 80)Google Scholar