Newmanismn.
/ˈnjuːmənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈn(j)uməˌnɪz(ə)m/ Christian Church. Now historical.
The theological and ecclesiastical body of views put forward by John Henry Newman before he left the Anglican Church to become a Roman Catholic in 1845; the principles involved in Newman's teaching of this time; support for these principles.See also Oxford Movement n.; Tractarianism n. at tractarian n. and adj. Derivatives.
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Newmanism1835
Tractism1837
Newmania1838
Oxfordism1838
Puseyism1838
Tractarianism1840
Oxford Movement1841
1835 F. W. Faber Let. Jan. in J. E. Bowden Life & Lett. F. W. Faber (1869) 20 I have been thinking a great deal on the merits and tendency of Newmanism.
1838 T. Arnold Let. 5 Oct. in A. P. Stanley Life of Dr. Arnold (1844) II. 126 The restless love of paradox, is, I believe, one of the main causes of the growth of Newmanism.
1893 H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey II. xxiv. 139 The principles reasserted by the Oxford writers had been before denounced by their Latitudinarian opponents as Newmanism.
1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 553/1 He said the last word on Newman, and identified himself with Newmanism.
1993 19th-cent. Lit. 47 523 He finds Newman scholarship foundering on one or another reef of a kind of halfway Newmanism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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