The Antagonist Principle: John Henry Newman and the Paradox by Lawrence Poston
By Lawrence Poston
The Antagonist Principle is a serious exam of
the works and infrequently debatable public profession of John Henry Newman (1801–1890), first as
an Anglican after which as Victorian England’s most famed convert to Roman Catholicism at a
time whilst this sort of conversion used to be not just a minority selection yet in a few quarters a deeply
offensive one. Lawrence Poston adopts the belief of character as his subject, not just in the
sleek feel of warring parts in one’s personal temperament and relationships with others
but in addition in a theological feel as a primary premise of orthodox Trinitarian Christian doctrine.
the main of "antagonism," within the experience of competition, Poston argues, activated Newman's
mind's eye whereas concurrently surroundings limits to his success, either as a non secular leader
and as a author. the writer attracts on a wide selection of biographical, ancient, literary, and
theological scholarship to supply an "ethical" examining of Newman’s texts that
seeks to provide a humane and complicated portrait.
Neither a biography nor a
revelation of a existence, this textual learn of Newman’s improvement as a theologian in his
released works and personal correspondence makes an attempt to resituate him as one of many most
combative of the Victorian seekers. even though his non secular quest came about at the a long way correct of
the spiritual spectrum in Victorian England, it still allied him with a few other
widespread figures of his iteration as special from one another as Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart
Mill, and Walter Pater. warding off either hagiography and iconoclasm, Poston goals to "see
Newman whole."
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