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`Brunelleschi's Dome,' by Ross King; Walker.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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A great dome is a stunning architectural oxymoron, a masonry bubble whose airiness belies the weight of the thousands of tons of brick and stone of which it is made.
The dome of St. Peter's, seen from a nearby hill in Rome, looks like nothing so much as a giant, elegant balloon straining to soar free of the basilica below it. The dome of the Pantheon in Rome, seen from inside, soars away with a dizzying grandeur. But if you seek the most magnificent of all domes, look to Florence, where the dome of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore seems to float on the city's ...
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John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; Late Modern European John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion. By Frank M. Turner...xii, 740. $35.00.) The continued interest in the life of John Henry Newman (1801-1890) is remarkable. One wonders why a nineteenth...
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John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion
; Frank M. Turner, John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion. New Haven, Conn...ISBN 0-300-09251-2. In view of the plethora of studies on John Henry Newman in recent years, with notable biographies by Sheridan...
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The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman. Volume VII: Editing the British Critic, January 1839-December 1840
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman. Volume VII: Editing the British Critic, January...xxvi, 550. $95.00.) This latest volume of John Henry Newman's Letters and Diaries, for the years 1839...
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Critical Essays on John Henry Newman.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; Critical Essays on John Henry Newman, ed. Ed Block, Jr., English Literary Studies, No. 55...hundred years after his death on 11 August 1890 at the age of 89, John Henry Newman is alive and well: Visitors still see his figure on dark...
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John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State
; John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion. By Frank Turner. New Haven...2002. 752 pp. $35.00. Frank Turner offers an interpretation of John Henry Newman before and during the publication of Tracts for the Times, the...
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John Henry Newman: Universal Revelation
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History
; FRANCIS MCGRATH. John Henry Newman: Universal Revelation, Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press...written an interesting text on an important facet of the thought of John Henry Newman, specifically his work on universal revelation. Newman...
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John Henry Newman.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; JOHN HENRY NEWMAN THIS reviewer must, at the outset, declare an interest. He is fervently pro-Newman, as befits one educated at the Catholic...Among the many who could not stand him was Henry Manning, the cardinal-archbishop of...
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Discovering anew treasures of Newman.(John Henry Newman)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; The parents of John Henry Newman, born in London on Feb. 21, 1801, could not have had any idea...And observers everywhere will be asking again and again whether John Henry Newman will be beatified and canonized. Fr. Vincent Blehl, an...
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Walter Jost, Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; Walter Jost, Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman. (U of South Carolina P. 1989). 325 pp. Ignoring...intellectual praxis," Walter Jost's Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman charts ways in which Newman's intellectual...
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A Review Article: John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History
; ...Article: FRANK M TRUNER. John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical...junctures in later life. Newman may have presented his...and the development of Newman's thought with bizarre...contemporaneously with Newman's. John Henry, Turner says, always...
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