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Calixta

by John Henry Newman
language: spanish
Publisher: Ediciones Encuentro, S.A., September of 2010 ‧
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Calixta es una novela histórica centrada en el África de mediados del siglo III. En ella pretendió John Henry Newman retratar la vida de los primeros cristianos y sus relaciones con el mundo pagano a través de personajes que representan una familia media: Agelio, Juba Jucundus; sus amigos, la bella Calixta y Aristón, fabricantes de ídolos y objetos de culto paganos; y la decaída comunidad cristiana, con san Cipriano y los cristianos, amenazados y vigorizados por la persecución de Decio. Pero no es la peripecia lo que interesa a Newman, sino el fenómeno de la conversión, que ya había tratado en su anterior novela autobiográfica Perder y ganar. La conversión aparece como un proceso lento y sinuoso que exige un compromiso irremediablemente personal. Al describir esta evolución interior, Newman prefigura con viveza su concepción de la conciencia y aporta una revolucionaria visión del misterio de la Iglesia, dos de sus más destacadas aportaciones al pensamiento cristiano moderno.

Calixta

by John Henry Newman

Property Description
ISBN: 9788499200491
Publisher: Ediciones Encuentro, S.A.
Release Date: September of 2010
Language: Spanish
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 320
Format: Book
Categories: Books in Spanish > Fiction > Essays
EAN: 9788499200491

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John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman, CO was born in London on February 21, 1801, and died in Edgbaston on August 11, 1890. He was an English Anglican priest who converted to Catholicism, later appointed cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in 1879. He was beatified on September 19, 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI and later canonized by Pope Francis on October 13, 2019.
He studied at Trinity College , Oxford (1816) and Oriel College (1822) and was ordained a priest of the Church of England. He later became one of the leaders of the "Oxford Movement". He considered the Anglicanism of his time to be excessively Protestant and secularized and considered Catholicism to be corrupted in relation to the origins of Christianity. He sought a "middle way" between the two, and, researching the beginnings of the Catholic Church and Christianity in general, ended up converting to Catholicism.
After his conversion to Catholicism (1845), he was ordained a priest of the Catholic Church in Rome (1847), opened and directed an oratory of St. Philip Neri in Birmingham, and was also rector of the Catholic University of Ireland (1854).

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