Loss and Gain
John Henry Newman
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"Our strength in this world is, to be the subjects of the reason, and our liberty, to be captives of the truth."
This novel about a young man's intellectual and spiritual development was the first work John Henry Newman wrote after entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. The story describes the perplexing questions and doubts Charles Reding experiences while attending Oxford.
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Though intending to avoid the religious controversies that are being heatedly debated at the university, Reding ends up leaving the Church of England and becoming a Catholic. A former Anglican clergyman who was later named a Catholic cardinal, Newman wrote this autobiographical novel to illustrate his own reasons for embracing Catholicism.
Essays
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Trevor Lipscombe situates the reader with the introductory essay.
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Meet the Minds behind the Loss and Gain Edition
Editors
Joseph Pearce
JOSEPH PEARCE is the acclaimed author of numerous literary studies, including Literary Converts, The Quest for Shakespeare, and Shakespeare on Love, as well as popular biographies of Oscar Wilde, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He is the general editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions series.
Trevor Lipscombe
Trevor Lipscombe is the director of The Catholic University of America Press. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has taught at Oxford, the City University of New York, and Johns Hopkins University. Lipscombe is the author of Quick(er) Calculations (Oxford University Press, 2021), The Physics of Rugby (Nottingham University Press, 2009), and is coauthor, with Alice Calaprice, of Albert Einstein: A Biography (Greenwood, 2005). He edited Saint John Henry Newman’s novel Loss and Gain for the Ignatius Critical Editions (2012).