Conscience & Conversion in Newman: A Developmental Study of Self in John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman once wrote that to live is to change. In this work Walter E. Conn explores the ways in which Newman himself changed throughout his spiritual life, ultimately resulting in his move to Rome and his conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism. However, this work also highlights the ways in which this most famous conversion fits into a life driven through a series of important conversions and yet unified by an underlying, dynamic conscience and a desire for a transcendent Other, the ultimate reality of truth, goodness, and love. In accomplishing this task Conn traces the life of Newman, identifying the various specific conversion experiences that characterized Newman changing sense of his spiritual self, and identifying the place of consciousness in this process.