| --(2) Frank M. Turner, JOHN
HENRY NEWMAN: THE CHALLENGE TO EVANGELICAL RELIGION, New Haven, Yale
U.P. 2002, (hereafter usually simply Turner NEWMAN), p. 23.
To participants in a 2003 conference titled "John Henry Newman: Moments of Crisis, Moments of Grace," Turner's book is long on crisis but short on grace. Holiness and godliness may be simply beyond Turner's method to reach. Still, his is an honest semi-biography. It does not at all remind of Oscar Wilde's cynical comment on biographers in "The Artist As Critic," They are the pest of the age, nothing more and nothing less. Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. (07/07/2003) |