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New Foes and Old Faces: Fiction, Interpretation, and Integrity in Newman and Kingsley

New Foes and Old Faces: Fiction, Interpretation, and Integrity in Newman and Kingsley Maria Poggi Johnson New Foes and Old Faces Fiction, Interpretation, and Integrity in Newman and Kingsley1 In i 864 the anglican clergyman and novelist Charles Kingsley, reviewing Froude's History of England for Macmillan's Magazine, described in strong terms the disastrous effects of the Roman Catholic system on public and private morality in English history. In the process he directed a personal jab at John Henry Newman, erst- while leader of the Anglican High Church Oxford movement, and England's most famous convert to Rome. "Truth, for its own sake," Kingsley wrote, "had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy." Father Newman informs us that it need not, and on the whole ought not to be; that cunning is the weapon which Heaven has given to the saints wherewith to withstand the brute male force of the wicked world which marries and is given in marriage. Whether his notion be doctrinally correct or not, it is at least historically so. The insult lead to an exchange of letters between the two men, icily polite at first, and growing increasingly testy until Newman pub- lished the entire correspondence with a satirical commentary, and 2:3 summer 1999 Kingsley retorted with a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture Logos: Journal of Catholic Thought & Culture

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Maria Poggi Johnson New Foes and Old Faces Fiction, Interpretation, and Integrity in Newman and Kingsley1 In i 864 the anglican clergyman and novelist Charles Kingsley, reviewing Froude's History of England for Macmillan's Magazine, described in strong terms the disastrous effects of the Roman Catholic system on public and private morality in English history. In the process he directed a personal jab at John Henry Newman, erst- while leader of the Anglican High Church Oxford movement, and England's most famous convert to Rome. "Truth, for its own sake," Kingsley wrote, "had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy." Father Newman informs us that it need not, and on the whole ought not to be; that cunning is the weapon which Heaven has given to the saints wherewith to withstand the brute male force of the wicked world which marries and is given in marriage. Whether his notion be doctrinally correct or not, it is at least historically so. The insult lead to an exchange of letters between the two men, icily polite at first, and growing increasingly testy until Newman pub- lished the entire correspondence with a satirical commentary, and 2:3 summer 1999 Kingsley retorted with a

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Published: Apr 4, 1999

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