Apologia pro Vita Sua is John Henry Newman's autobiographical defense of his religious opinions, written amid controversy. It traces his intellectual and spiritual development as a 19th-century English religious thinker and writer, exploring conscience, faith, and the reasons behind his choices. It offers a thoughtful account for listeners interested in religious history and personal conviction.
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Opening of the book
APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA
BEING
A History of his Religious Opinions.
BY
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN.
"Commit thy way to the Lord and trust in Him, and He will do it. And He will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day."
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET
1890.
PRINTED BY
KELLY AND CO., GATE STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS,
AND KINGSTON-ON-THAMES.
PREFACE.
The following History of my Religious Opinions, now that it is detached from the context in which it originally stood, requires some preliminary explanation; and that, not only in order to introduce it generally to the reader, but specially to make him understand, how I came to write a whole book about myself, and about my most private
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