Author: Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman
Title: Essays on Various Subjects
Description: London, Thomas Baker, 1888. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth. xxxix, 558p. Cover shows signs of shelf wear, but very minimal for a book of this age. Many pages are uncut, so this book has never been read. Customer will need to cut pages with sharp tool. otherwise a clean and tight book in very good condition. Book contains biographical introduction to Cardinal Wiseman's life. Then offers compilation of Wiseman's writings on scripture, parables, miracles, ancient and modern Catholicism, dogmatic authority, Christian art, the Concil of Constantinople, Boniface VIII, and the early Italian academies. Useful reading for anyone interested in the mind of a pivotal figure in the revival of English Catholicism in the 19th century. .

Keywords: British Catholicism, Oxford Movement, Tractarians


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