John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Mondays, June 3-July 22, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
St. Gregory the Great, Msgr. Klasen Building. 1609 W Gregory St
with Fr. Bob Sprott, OFM (scholar-in-residence)
Canonized in 2019, Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) was an English churchman and man of letters who famously converted to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Considered to be the father of the Second Vatican Council, he wrote on morality in the modern age, the nature of religious belief, the purpose of education, and the development of doctrine as well as hymns, poetry, and novels.
Twenty years after his departure from Anglicanism and his entry into the Roman Catholic Church, Newman wrote his autobiography. The Apologia is both the literary monument of his religious conversion and an exploration of the psychological and spiritual sources of human growth and development. Perhaps Newman’s most subtle and intriguing work, it offers his own intimate and personal history as a template for how, in the modern world, one enters into faith.
Required Texts
The only text will be the Norton critical edition of the Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Cardinal Newman, edited by David J. DeLaura and published by W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN: 9780393097665.
St. Gregory the Great, Msgr. Klasen Building. 1609 W Gregory St
with Fr. Bob Sprott, OFM (scholar-in-residence)
Canonized in 2019, Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) was an English churchman and man of letters who famously converted to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Considered to be the father of the Second Vatican Council, he wrote on morality in the modern age, the nature of religious belief, the purpose of education, and the development of doctrine as well as hymns, poetry, and novels.
Twenty years after his departure from Anglicanism and his entry into the Roman Catholic Church, Newman wrote his autobiography. The Apologia is both the literary monument of his religious conversion and an exploration of the psychological and spiritual sources of human growth and development. Perhaps Newman’s most subtle and intriguing work, it offers his own intimate and personal history as a template for how, in the modern world, one enters into faith.
Required Texts
The only text will be the Norton critical edition of the Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Cardinal Newman, edited by David J. DeLaura and published by W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN: 9780393097665.
$100 suggested donation.* Register by filling out the form below. Contact Mark Franzen with any questions.
*You can pay online or bring a check or cash to the class. Make checks payable to Mary, Mother of God Parish with "St. Gregory's Hall" in the memo line. All donations are used to cover program and staff-related expenses of St. Gregory's Hall. No funds are used for general Parish operating expenses.
*You can pay online or bring a check or cash to the class. Make checks payable to Mary, Mother of God Parish with "St. Gregory's Hall" in the memo line. All donations are used to cover program and staff-related expenses of St. Gregory's Hall. No funds are used for general Parish operating expenses.
About the teacher
Fr. Bob Sprott, OFM, is a member of the Order of the Friars Minor. He holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Chicago, and his work in ministry has led him to the American Southwest, working with Pueblo and Hispanic villages, the Canadian Arctic, working in the Diocese of Churchill-Hudson Bay, and Guatemala, teaching and providing spiritual direction at a minor seminary run by the Benedictine monks near the city of Quetzaltenango. In 2000 he returned to the U.S. and began ten years in Chicago, many of which were spent at St. Peter’s in the Loop. He has taught numerous adult education courses at the Newberry Library and at area parishes.
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