| (9) Turner's publisher is interested in selling many more than seven or eight hundred copies to Turner's academic peers and fellow specialists. Yale University Press, that is, presumably intends that THE CHALLENGE TO EVANGELICAL RELIGION also draw thousands of non-specialist readers who are not attached to graduate departments of major research universities. Such a wider readership includes people who think highly of John Henry Newman's theology, rhetoric, his novels or poetry. Anyone who reads as much as he has time for about Newman also naturally turns to Turner, "the new kid on the block." Such readers include students: majors in education, English and history. They include as well Roman Catholics, Anglo Catholics, sermon writers and pursuers of a devout life. Among, it may be imagined, several thousand readers of THE CHALLENGE TO EVANGELICAL RELIGION quite a few will likely read Turner before they have read Sheridan Gilley, Sean O'Faolain, Maisie Ward, Vincent Blehl, Avery Dulles or other Newman scholars. Or before they have thumbed through every last one of the ninety TRACTS, or so much as a third of Newman' s sermons. |