Essays Critical and Historical by John Cardinal Newman
Publication:1910 Longmans, Green, and Co.
An attractive two-volume set of Newman’s significant philosophical and theological work, in which he explores the relationship between classical form and Western doctrine. Drawing on Aristotle’s Poetics, he argues that truth is apprehended through structure, development, and historical continuity rather than through abstract system alone. Newman’s influential reflection on the idea of the Antichrist is treated not as a sensational figure, but as a historically intelligible type arising from distorted yet genuine human aspiration.
Condition: custom quarter leather institutional binding, bearing the armorial seal of Stonyhurst College, with a floral gilt motif to the spine, raised bands, and a morocco leather title label. some general soiling to the covers,all edges gilt, foxing to endpapers, clean, tightly bound, in Very Good condition