On the surface, John Henry Newman (1801-1890), the Catholic Cardinal, and George Eliot (1819-1880), the agnostic novelist Mary Anne Evans, might be thought to share little in common: Newman the towering figure of nineteenth-century religious orthodoxy, Eliot a leading intellectual voice of secular realism. Yet there is an intellectual kinship despite their religious divide. Eliot,Continue reading “Newman & George Eliot”
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