(13)  Here is the text of a handout available at the “meet the teachers” event in
October 2002, one week before the course begins, and also given out at the first class. It is a brief course syllabus. 

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN (1801 - 1890): From Calvinist to Cardinal

Mary and Patrick Killough will teach an introductory adult education course on
Newman for six weeks (Monday 0930-1130) in October-November 2002. Classes
meet on the newly opened In The Oaks campus of Montreat College in nearby Black
Mountain, North Carolina. 

Each of the six sessions is divided into two 50 minute segments divided by a 20
minute break. The 12 segments will be covered as followed. Later revision is
possible. 

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Twelve  Presentations


1.a  Biography: Overview and Young Newman--to age 15. 
   Born February 21, 1801 in London 
   Family. Parents: John Newman and Jemima Fourdriner 
   Ealing School (eight years  May 1808 - December 1816) 

1. b I n Medias Res: Poems 
   “Lead Kindly Light” 
   “The Dream of Gerontius” 

2.a  Newman’s First Conversion and Undergraduate Years at Oxford  1816 - 1820 
   Conversion to Evangelical Christianity 1816 at Ealing School 
   Trinity College Oxford Undergraduate 

2.b   More Poems and the Novel CALLISTA (1856) 
   Lyra Apostolica.  Other poems 
   CALLISTA: North Africa in 3rd Century: England in 19th 

3.a.  Young Man Newman 1820 - 1833 
   Fellow of Oriel College. Evangelical until 1824. 
   Oriel College Mentors and Friends: Pusey, Whately, Keble, Froude 
  Mediterranean Journey December 1832 - July 1833 
   “Lead Kindly Light” reconsidered 

3.b. The Oxford Movement (1833 - 1845) 
   19th Century Church of England 
   Other Christian Denominations and Emphases 
   Tracts for the Times. Anglican hierarchy rejects Newman’s 1841 
   Tract # 90, giving a Roman Catholic "spin" to the 39 Articles 

4.a.  Newman’s Circle of Female Relatives and Friends 
   Mother, Grandmother, Aunt, Three Sisters 
   Maria Giberne (painter) and others, including novelists 

4.b.  Newman’s First Novel LOSS AND GAIN (1848) 
   The story of a conversion, not precisely Newman’s 

5.a.  Development of Doctrine 
   ARIANS OF THE FOURTH CENTURY (1832) 
   AN ESSAY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINE (1845) 

5.b.  Newman on Education 
Rector of The Catholic University of Dublin (1851 - 1858) 
   THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY (1854) 

5.c.  Evolution of Newman’s Ideas 
   APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA (1864) 
   A GRAMMAR OF ASSENT  (1870) 

6.a.  Newman The Roman Catholic 
   The Oratorian Communities 
   Papal Infallibility. Letter to the Duke of Norfolk. 
   Pope Leo XIII creates Newman Cardinal May 12, 1879 
   (Motto: Cor ad Cor loquitur) 
   Died in Edgbaston, Birmingham Oratory August 11, 1890 

6.b. Review and Summing Up 
   Newman's Roles Today