The Newman Brothers: An Essay in Comparative Intellectual Biography

by William Robbins

The mid-nineteenth century was a period of extraordinary intellectual excitement and tension and nowhere is this more vividly illustrated than in the divergent careers of Cardinal Newman and his brother Francis. Both were men of considerable mental powers and high moral purpose. They shared a devotion to the search for religious truth and spiritual values, yet their intellectual development drove them further and further apart until they came to represent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674622006
• ISBN13: 9780674622005
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"