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Quotation from Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
“By those great words of the ancient Father, the theory of the _Via Media_ was absolutely pulverised.”
Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Part V (Project Gutenberg #19690 (Dent edition))
The effect on him in 1839 of Augustine's securus judicat orbis terrarum, quoted in Wiseman's article on the Donatists.
Citation: "By those great words of the ancient Father, the theory of the _Via Media_ was absolutely pulverised." — John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Part V (Project Gutenberg #19690 (Dent edition)). (id apologia-pro-vita-sua-q4)
Portrait: Cardinal Newman Portrait (cropped), Herbert Rose Barraud, Public domain.
