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Author Nichols, Aidan, author

Title Apologia : a memoir / Aidan Nichols
Published Leominster : Gracewing, [2023]
©2023

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 MELB  230.2092 NICHOLS Nic/Aam  DUE 24-04-24
Description xi, 150 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Foreword / Bishop of Lancaster -- Preface -- Forebears -- A Lancashire childhood -- Via Geneva to Rome -- Dublin adventure -- Student days -- Joining Blackfriars -- Controversies of the day -- Sikkimese prospect -- Scottish sojourn -- Beginning to write theology -- In Norway -- A stay in the city -- Coming to Cambridge -- In traditionalist France -- The Anglo-Catholic dilemma -- Ethiopian charity -- Lecturer at Oxford -- Books and archives -- The New Church controversy -- Journey to Moscow -- Caribbean exile -- At Rivendell -- Toward the Grey Havens -- A search in process -- In conclusion : some lessons learnt
Summary "Aidan Nichols has been contributing to theological literature since the beginning of the 1980s. Now in his seventy-fifth year, he looks back not only at his writings but at the three-quarters of a century of life from which they came. He explains how, despite a nominally Anglican background, his early sense of the transcendent was really of God in nature. Only through an experience in the Russian church in Geneva did he become a confessing Christian. Back home, where he was left a teenage orphan, he moved from Anglo-Catholicism into the Roman Catholic Church. After reading Modern History at Oxford, that led by a natural progression to becoming a Religious and a priest. In this book Nichols describes the wide variety of situations in which he has lived in Scotland, Norway, Rome, France, Ethiopia, and Jamaica, as well as England and the United States. Over the years, drawing on not only Catholic but also Orthodox and Anglican sources, he has produced a small library of books, touching on many areas of theology and culture while also seeking, at different times, to bind them together into a coherent unity, inspired by, principally, two great giants: Thomas Aquinas, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Aidan Nichols, the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI were a halcyon time. Things have been more difficult under the successor to these popes. He explains the problems he has encountered, both theoretical and practical, and his search for a resolution that is satisfactory both theologically and autobiographically. He ends his apologia with a raft of proposals for the stabilization and enrichment of ecclesial life in the decades to come."-- From the back cover
Notes "First printed in England in 2023."--From the title page verso
Subject Nichols, Aidan -- Biography
Theologians -- 20th century -- Biography
Christian biography -- 20th century
Catholic authors -- 20th century -- Biography
Ecumenical movement -- History -- 20th century
Christian union -- Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century
Catholic authors
Christian biography
Theologians -- Biography
Christian union -- Catholic Church
Ecumenical movement
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780852447239
085244723X
Other Titles Memoir