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John Henry Newman’s sermons and books including What is a University? and his spiritual autobiography, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, influenced people such as G. Please Support The Stream: Equipping Christians to Think Clearly About the Political, Economic, and Moral Issues of Our Day. Later, his study of the Church Fathers moved him from his Evangelical roots to what would become known as Anglo-Catholicism and finally to the Catholic Church. At Oxford, he proved a brilliant scholar who, as Church of England clergyman, held firm to the Christian faith in spite of the cultural and intellectual developments around him. Unlike most people at the time, Newman’s family actually practiced their Anglican faith and young John Henry became an avid reader of the Bible before he was 7.Īt 15, the year before he went to Oxford, Newman experienced an intense conversion and became active in Methodist circles. In 1801, John Henry Newman was born to a middle class English family. John Henry Newman: An Influencer of Influencers In the eclipse of the light the Faith had shed for centuries, points of light began to appear. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.” - Thérèse of Lisieuxīut as nation states became even more aggressive, hemming in the Church in new, unexpected ways, and as the intellectual climate progressed from Rousseau and Voltaire to Marx, Darwin and Nietzsche, something unexpected happened. “Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. It did not go well.īy 1800, the Church seemed as though it was at least on the ropes and possibly down for the count. The 1700s saw weak popes trying to respond to both the aggressiveness of the new nation states and an intellectual climate that marginalized faith. The eighteenth century was not kind to Christianity - and to Catholic Christianity in particular. After all, from the beginning it has been God’s preferred strategy. Yet a thousand points of light has been and continues to be the right solution for our country and our churches. Bush’s key themes, something for which he was viciously criticized and mocked. … a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.”Ī thousand points of light was one of Mr. “For we’re a nation of community,” he said, “of thousands and tens of thousands of ethnic, religious, social, business, labor union, neighborhood, regional and other organizations, all of them varied, voluntary and unique. Bush famously talked about “a thousand points of light,” setting that in opposition to waiting “passively while Washington sets the rules.” When he accepted the 1988 Republican presidential nomination, George H.W.