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Apologia is a detailed autobiography in defense of Newman’s theological and ecclesiastical conclusions. Newman wrote this volume as a formal rebuttal to many negative claims and questions concerning his theology and conversion to Catholicism. By the Fall of 1863, these allegations came to a head with the publication of some negative comments about Newman in the periodical Macmillan's Magazine. In...

Bishop has but said that a certain Tract is ‘objectionable,’ no reason being stated. I have no intention whatever of yielding any one point which I hold on conviction; and that the authorities of the Church know full well.” In the summer of 1841, I found myself at Littlemore without any harass or anxiety on my mind. I had determined to put aside all controversy, and I set myself down to my translation of St. Athanasius; but, between July and November, I received three blows which broke me. 1. I had
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