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by bcadmin | Nov 17, 2022 | Books, Doctrine, Edward Gibbon, Edward Pusey, Features, Francis Newman, History, Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, Matthew Levering, News, Richard Hurrell Fourde, Scripture, St. John Henry Newman, Word On Fire | 0 |
Less than ten years after Anglican clergyman John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism, Pope Pius IX in 1854 issued the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, which declared, as Catholic dogma, that Mary, by God’s grace, was […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 29, 2020 | Art & Culture, Edward Gibbon, Featured, History, News, Roman Empire, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
In 1752, a fifteen-year-old Edward Gibbon entered the halls of Magdalen College, Oxford, where his father had enrolled him as a gentleman commoner. The aspect of his new academic mother did not inspire the young scholar with immediate reverence, nor would the passage of many years cause him to look back on his brief term […]
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