Internet Modern History Sourcebook
19th Century Religion
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Religion in the Face of
Modernity
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Catholicism: Reaction and
Radicalism
- The Popes: Reaction and Reform
- Renewed Marianism and Devotionalism
- Converts
- 2ND Patrick Allitt: Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome, Chapter 1, with an interesting review by
Peter Steinfels. [At NY Times] [Internet Archive version here]
- Francis Thompson !859-1907): The Hound of Heaven,
with discussion [Was At Drexel, now Internet Archive]
- Lytton Strachey: Cardinal Manning (1807-1982), from Eminent
Victorians, 1918 [At this Site][At this Site]
Poison pen portraits of both Manning and Newman.
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2ND Peter C. Erb: A Question of Sovereignty: The Politics of Manning's Conversion 1996 [Was At Emory, now Internet Archive]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): The Theory of
Developments in Religious Doctrine, 1843 [At this Site]
This is a "University Sermon" from 1843 (the last of his Fifteen Sermons
Preached Before the University of Oxford), not the more extended monograph of 1845.
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John Henry Newman (1801-1990): Essay On the
Development of Christian Doctrine, long excerpts. [At Newman Reader] [Internet Archive version here]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): Surrender to God (1st
Sunday in Lent), 1848 [At this Site]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): The World and Sin (2nd Sunday in Lent), 1848 [At this Site]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): Faith and Private
Judgement,1849 [At this Site]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): The Second Spring: A
sermon delivered to the First Provincial Council of Westminster, 1852 [At this Site]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): The Idea of A University, 1854 [At this Site]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): Sermon on Fasting [At
this Site]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): On Consulting the Faithful
in Matters of Doctrine, July 1859 [At this Site]
Newman advances ideas in ecclesiology which were not fully understood until a century
later at the Second Vatican Council.
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): Apologia Pro Vita Sua 1864 [Project Gutenberg]
Complete text, with the subsidiary documents. This is probably the single most influential
document produced by and about English Catholicism.
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): Apologia Pro Vita Sua,
1864, plus material from later editions [At Newman Reader] [Internet Archive version here]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): A Letter Addressed to His
Grace the Duke of Norfolk on Occasion of Mr. Gladstone's Recent Expostulation, Dec.
27, 1874 [At this Site]
Newman's great Catholic defence of the primacy of conscience against all other authority.
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): Who is to Blame? [At this Site]
Newman on the nature of constitutional government.
- 2ND See Catholic Encyclopedia:
John Henry Newman [At New Advent]
and E. L. Core
John
Henry Newman: His Developing Faith, His Life as a Catholic [At Victorian Web] [Internet Archive version here]
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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889): Selected Poetry [At Toronto]
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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889): Poems, complete 1918
edition, [At Bartleby]
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889): Poems, complete 1918
edition, [Project Gutenberg]
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Gilbert Keith Chesteron: Heretics 1905, full
text, [At CCEL]
- Gilbert Keith Chesteron: Orthodoxy 1909,
full text, [At CCEL]
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WEB Mgsr. Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) [At
Notre Dame] [Internet Archive version here]
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Mgsr. Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914): Papers of a Pariah,
1907 [Was At Notre Dame, now Internet Archive]
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Mgsr. Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914): Confessions of a Convert,
1913 [At Notre Dame] [Internet Archive version here]
- St. George Jackson Mivart (1827-1900): On the Genesis of the
Species 1871 [At this Site]
Mivart was a Catholic convert who wrote a noted reply to the Darwinian thesis, which
he did not dismiss out of hand, in 1871. In 1876, Pope Pius IX conferred on him the degree
of doctor of philosophy.
- Converts and Decadence
- Radicals
- Dorothy Day: Aims and Purposes, 1940
[At Catholic Worker] [Internet Archive version here]
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WEB Dorothy Day Archives [At
Catholic Worker] [Internet Archive version here]
Many more texts by Dorothy Day and other Catholic Worker writers.
- Missionary Expansion
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Pope Leo XIII: Encyclical: Catholicae
Ecclesiae (On Slavery in The Missions), 1890. [At the Vatican]
- Anti-Catholicism
- Resistence to Roman Control
- Old Catholics
- "Modernism"
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Protestantism:
Activism, Rationalism, and Fideism
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William James (1842-1910): The
Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902 [At PsyWWW][Full Text] [Internet Archive version here]
- Biblical Criticism
- Liberal Protestantism
- Muscular Christianity
- The Oxford Movement
- WEB The Nineteenth Century High Church: Tractarianism, the Oxford Movement, and Ritualism [At Victorian Web] [Internet Archive version here]
- John Keble (1792-1866): Sermon
on National Apostasy 1833 [At Victorian Web] [Internet Archive version here]
Preached at the Assize Sermon in Oxford, it was sensation and is seen as the beginning of
the Oxford Movement.
- 2ND Glenn Everett on Tractarianism [At Victorian Web] [Internet Archive version here]
- 2ND Catholic Encyclopedia on
The Oxford Movement
- The Tracts for the Times, 1833-1841 [At this Site]
Listing of all tracts, with links to online texts were available.
- Tracts for the Times 1: Thoughts on the Ministerial
Commisson, 1833, [by John Henry Newman][At this Site]
- Tracts for the Times 2: The Catholic Church, 1833
[by John Henry Newman][At this Site]
- Tracts for the Times 3: Thoughts on Alteration in the
Liturgy, 1833 [by John Henry Newman][At this Site]
- Tracts for the Times 4: Adherence to the Apostolical
Succession the Safest Course. On Alterations in the Prayer-book, 1833 [by John
Keble] [At this Site]
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John Henry Newman (1801-1890): Written
Works [At Newman Reader] [Internet Archive version here]
- Negating the 39 Articles [At this Site]
- Pope Leo XIII (b.1810-r.1878-1903): On the Nullity of
Anglican Orders, Apostolicae Curae, 1896 [At this Site]
- Archbishops of England: Reply to Leo XIII [At this
Site]
- Quakers
- Fundamentalism
- Missionary Expansion
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Eastern
Orthodoxy: Christian Life Under Tsars and Sultans
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Judaism and Modernity
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Eastern Religions in the West
- WEB Madame Blavatsky: Works [At Blavatsky.net] [Internet Archive version here]
Large number of texts from the major figure in Theosophy.
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Humanist
Consideration of Religious Thought
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