Saint John Henry Newman
Writer of the Dream of Gerontius, which was set by Elgar in 1900, of Tracts for the Times (1833–1841): Newman was canonised in February 2019. Rana Mitter looks at his thinking.
Catherine Pepinster, Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley and New Generation Thinker Dafydd Mills Daniel join Rana Mitter to look at the poet, theologian and now Saint John Henry. The programme marks 175 years since Newman's conversion from the high church tradition of Anglicanism and the Oxford Movement to the Catholic faith on 23 Feb 1846, with a conversation exploring his thinking and poetic writing.
Catherine Pepinster is former editor of the Tablet and the author of The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy
Dafydd Mills Daniel is McDonald Departmental Lecturer in Christian Ethics at the University of Oxford and a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ/AHRC New Generation Thinker. His book is called Ethical Rationalism and Secularisation in the British Enlightenment
Tim Stanley is a columnist and leader writer for the Daily Telegraph who studied history at Cambridge and who is a contributing editor for the Catholic Herald https://www.timothystanley.co.uk/index.html
Dr Kate Kennedy is Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Associate Director and a music specialist who has written on Ivor Gurney, and co-edited The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory after the Armistice and The First World War: Literature, Music, Memory.
You can find a playlist Free Thinking explores religious belief /programmes/p03mwxlp including contributions from Ziauddin Sardar, Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, Rabbi Sacks, Marilynne Robinson and Simon Schama.
Producer: Ruth Watts
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