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The current state of Newman scholarship

The volume of publications on, let alone by, John Henry Newman, is now so immense that they could scarcely be surveyed in a single article. However, the Victorian cardinal’s recent canonization provides an opportunity to offer an overview of the more significant recent contributions towards and salient trends in Newman scholarship. Even prior to the recent and ongoing outpouring of studies on Newman, theological, philosophical, educational, literary and biographical, to mark his canonization, various Newman anniversaries and landmarks over the last half century had already greatly added to the corpus of writing on Newman. In particular, the centenary of his death and being declared Venerable in 1990, and his Beatification in 2010, provided opportunities for reassessments and reappraisals of Newman’s life and thought. In the case of the former, we owe such significant contributions as Fr Ian Ker’s magisterial biography John Henry Newman, Sheridan Gilley’s no less noteworthy Newman and his Age, Terrence Merrigan’s edited special edition of Louvain Studies in honour of the Newman centennial, Merrigan’s Clear Heads and Holy Hearts, Newman after a hundred years edited by Fr Ian Ker & A.G. Hill, David Brown’s edition of Newman: A Man for our Time, Fr Halbert D. Weidner’s edition of Newman’s Via Media as well as the late David Newsome’s The Convert Cardinals.1 However, there was one collection of essays on Newman published at that time which