From 1824 to 1843 Newman was an active clergyman of the Chruch of England; during these years he entered the pulpit about 1,270 times. Newman published 217 of the sermons which he wrote during these years; a further 246 sermons survive in manuscript in the Archives of the Birmingham Oratory, some only as fragments but the majority as full texts. Volume I was published in 1991; the series will consist of five volumes in all.
This volume presents 58 previously unpublished sermons of John Henry Newman. Those preached in his early days as Vicar of St Mary's Oxford include a series of sermons devoted to Biblical history and contain some searching moral portraits of patriarchs and kings. Another series of sermons on the Epistle to the Romans with subsequent extensive revisions reveals the development of Newman's views on Justification and Faith leading up to the Lectures on Justification published in 1838.
Of the sermons surviving from St Clement's, 1824-1826, when Newman held Evangelical views, the present volume contatins a number of practical sermons dealing with details of Christian living. These are followed by sermons devoted to Biblical theology in which Newman among other issues explores various aspects of the Jewish religion as presented in the Old Testament.
As many of these sermons were revised and subsequently preached again, they are important for an undrestanding of the growth of Newman's spiritual theology.
This volume contains 58 previously unpublished sermons of John Henry Newman. Half of them date from 1824-1826 when Newman was a curate at St Clement's, Oxford and Evangelical in his beliefs. Most of the others were preached in his early days as Vicar of St Mary's, Oxford. As many were revised and subsequently preached again, they are important for an understanding of the growth of his spiritual theology.
Blehl's compendium makes a sound scholarly addition to the admirable on-going task of making all of Newman's sermons available in modern editions ... The Blehl volume exposes the reader to both the inspired and the pedestrian, the brilliant and the incomplete from Newman's pen ... Blehl's volume will edify the specialist.
