Unearthly Beauty – The Aesthetic of St John Henry Newman

This book has been commissioned by the Postulator of the Cause of Blessed John Henry Newman, and the Publication will coincide with his canonisation on 13th October 2019.

Cardinal Newman is recognised as one of the foremost intellectual figures of the nineteenth century. A prolific writer, with over forty major works published, he is known as a theologian, philosopher, educational theorist and poet. In this significant  new book, Fr Guy Nicholls, a member of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in Birmingham that Newman himself founded, examines for the first time in the aesthetic that inspired Newman. looks at Newman’s own musical compositions and the music of great composers that influenced him; at the churches that Newman built, at their furnishing and decoration, and the European and British buildings which he used as points of reference; at painting and landscape that was important to his development.